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...Camera Overseas, LIFE offered six pages of foreign pictures, including a shot of a vicious Bombay rioter, another of two old Russian collectivist farmers in a bath. For its promised party-of-the-week, LIFE went with British Ambassador Sir George Clerk to a hunt at the estate of the Comte de Fels near Paris. Readers are shown the famed and wealthy guests, the small army of beaters, the luxurious luncheon which punctuated the proceedings. LIFE'S last picture in its first appearance is the enormous bag of this day's sport-row after row of lifeless hare...
...Judge was Sir John Hawke, former Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. Appearing somewhat confused, he first asked, "How did this case come here?" Up rushed a clerk to whisper vigorously through Sir John's wig, and Mr. Justice Hawke was then heard to say, "Yes, yes, I see. I have been told...
...Atlanta, convicted of falsifying records of the Federal Penitentiary after 25 years in its employ, Clerk Harvey Frick asked to serve sentence in his old office...
...armies fight on their stomachs, so politicians fight on their campaign chests. Last week in Washington the Clerk of the House made public the official reports of campaign receipts & expenditures, up to within a fortnight of the election. With these and other facts published last week voters could get some idea of how much it costs to live four years rent free in the White House...
Rusty (Joan Bennett) and Charlie (Gary Grant) would have been married if Charlie had not tried to be too funny with the marriage-bureau clerk. Rusty's way of revealing that her sensibilities have been hurt is thereafter to outgag the waggish Charlie. Rusty cheats Charlie out of a vacation. He retaliates by taking over the city desk, making himself unpleasant to his onetime colleagues. Rusty hires the world's most obnoxious office boy to annoy him, has his office painted in zebra stripes. Heartbroken when he hears she is to marry Roger Dodacker. success story writer (Conrad...