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Thought he: Southern Rhodesia (pop. 1,446,000; whites, 78,560) has not enough of the "right" (i.e., white, enterprising) people. In Britain's grimy, industrial Lancashire (pop. 5,039,455) an obscure district councilman named E. L. Leeming came up with a suggestion that 500,000 Lancastrians should be moved to the uncrowded Rhodesian spaces. Sir Godfrey embraced the idea, made in Plan...
Animal Kingdom. In Dallas, Mrs. J. E. Britton discovered a wolf asleep on her porch swing. In Los Angeles, Councilman Harold Harby invented a device to keep roosters from crowing by making it impossible for them to stretch their necks; when he tried it on a rooster, he found that it changed the crowing into a wail. In Clarendon, Tex., Mrs. Don Grady, fixing a chicken for dinner, discovered inside it a diamond she had lost four months be fore...
Then there were the town-gown riots with Cambridge's vociferous councilman, Mickey Sullivan, violently protecting the rights of the poor boys from the town, and the Yard Cops protecting the poor College boys. Meanwhile sex was everywhere, with many a cool summer-school hand smoothing the fevered brow of the returning student warrior...
Meanwhile, School Board President Vincent S. Sadlowski has been indicted on the charge of having, as Councilman, accepted a bribe from a parking meter company. Last week teachers were struggling to get continuing contracts. The Board showed some signs of backing up, signing up. Tough Hamtramck, although busy in its war plants, happy in its beer gardens, was apparently beginning to resent its newest, if not greatest, local scandal...
...confession was provoked by the Cambridge City Council. Councilman Michael A. Sullivan, old foe of Harvard,* had persuaded from the Council an order to compel the University Overseers to surrender the statues as scrap metal...