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Michigan. Competing stoutly against a bevy of capable housewives, Clifford Sterns, a young bachelor who drives a school bus for a living, won four blue ribbons at the Monroe County Fair: for his baking-powder biscuits, chocolate cake, spice cake and berry pie. His apple pie was only third. Detroit's Welfare Superintendent set about investigating 50 overweight women on the city's welfare rolls, who get an extra $3.30 every fortnight to buy nonfattening foods, discovered they had made no progress whatever in losing weight. "Maybe in this weather," he conjectured, "they can't resist...
California. Undaunted by official skepticism, one Clifford Harrod McCaslin of Oakland went on building his egg-shaped bomb shelter ("Ever try to crush an egg?"). His egg, when completed, will house 33, provide bunk space for 20. "They laughed ... at City Hall when I applied for a permit," said McCaslin, "but it isn't really funny...
...speech to the nation was almost a repeat of the studied, sober-sided message he had delivered to the U.S. Congress a few hours earlier. For days, White House advisers and ghostwriters had turned out draft after draft-five in all. Clark Clifford and Judge Sam Rosenman, a couple of presidential phrase-turners from the old days, had dropped in during the week to help rub on some gloss...
...Season. In Independence County, Ark., Trapper Clifford J. Perkins checked his traps, found that he had caught i) a bobcat, 2) a game warden...
...cops first told Clifford Shephard that he was "the phantom forger" the day after they fingerprinted and mugged him. A slow-moving, heavy-jawed and trusting fellow, Shephard patiently smiled at their accusations, told them they'd find they were making a mistake. He was just a middle-aged salesman who lived in Scotch Plains, N.J., he explained, and, as a matter of fact, had just taken on a new line of liquid run-stopper for ladies' stockings...