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...then there would be something that stumped him, and besides, keeping the great 100,000-page ledgers of his business took up too much of his time. So Paul Bunyan was a very happy man the day he found John Rogers Inkslinger sitting bemused on a cliff with one foot damming up the Twin Rivers, and added him to his camp crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor, doctor, and general efficiency expert. And Johnny Inkslinger was very glad to meet Paul Bunyan, too, despite that hero's carelessness in mistaking the great scribe's supply of fresh-sharpened...
...proposed dedication: "This peak is dedicated, by grateful fellow citizens, in recognition of the public citizenship of Bernarr Macfadden, apostle of health, in his spectacular influence in arousing the nation to the benefits of life in nature's great outdoors." Proudly reported the Sacramento Bee last week-"CLIFF WILL BECOME HEALTH MONUMENT. . . . About 200 New Yorkers will attend the rites...
...four children after escaping from a New York veterans' hospital. To celebrate the reunion he took them on a picnic to West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted his arms, gracefully dived off to join his dying family...
This year Scituate will be the scene of this annual outing. On Tuesday, June 17, alumni of the School will meet at the Cliff House for the annual banquet. Although speakers for this dinner have not yet been selected, it is customary to have prominent graduates as well as leaders in this branch of medicine to talk to the gathering. A golf tournament, as well as tennis and water sports have been scheduled for recreation...
...actress whose acid witticisms to her companions are in the best manner of earlier Barry plays (Holiday, Paris Bound). They are devoting themselves to cocktails and the effort to change the conversation from suicide, suggested by the recent spectacle of a young man tossing himself off a high cliff...