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...Distant cousin to Dave Ingalls...
...British newspaper reader, like his American cousin, is an avid crossword-puzzle fan, but Britain's puzzles are as different from those in the U.S. as chess is from checkers. Most U.S. puzzles give clues that are at best merely obscure, e.g., "a device to fill the lower pane of a painted window" in six letters.† British fans expect their clues to be witty, ingenious, arch and wildly erudite...
...worker, showed up at the Moroney home with groceries and took two-year-old Mary Agnes Moroney "around the corner" to buy her clothes. She never came back with the child. The last word about Mary Agnes came a week later. An unidentified woman wrote the Moroneys that "my cousin. Julia Otis" had taken the girl in grief over the loss of her own baby, and gone to California, but would bring her back "safe & sound...
...done to ease their troubles at the conference of Commonwealth Prime Ministers, which will be held in London in November. Canada, the only dollar nation in the Commonwealth bloc, seems more skeptical than hopeful. Preparing for the conference last week, Ottawa took the attitude of a rich cousin invited to a family reunion-sorry for the less fortunate relatives, wary lest they make an unwelcome touch...
...Douglas MacArthur; for Vice President (without his consent), Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. Party Chairman Lar Daly, a Chicago businessman, has requested MacArthur to maintain "a dignified silence," but Party Chaplain E. Douglas MacArthur of Bensenville, Ill. is sure that the general, whom he claims as a second cousin, "is watching our progress with great interest." Progress to date: petition to get on the Illinois ballot rejected because it was submitted without the outside binding required...