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Paper Mate. In Columbus, Ohio, Gertrude Hill asked the Citizen and the Dispatch to withhold listing of her filing for divorce, because she was scheduled to deliver a lecture to a church group on "Family Life...
...dashing about Turkey's ancient capital to determine personally which streets shall be widened, which buildings demolished, which squares enlarged, and where new roads are to run. Some months ago, during a diplomatic trip to Baghdad, Turkey's Premier rose in the middle of the night to dispatch a cable to Istanbul: "Have decided to tear down house opposite Spice Bazaar at Eminonu Square. Proceed with expropriation...
...Goudge novels few are ever spared. For hundred of pages, battles sway to and fro indecisively-allowing ample space in between for dispatch riding, witch hunting, potion brewing, gypsy camping, idol smashing and other 17th century pastimes. Acting as spy for Charles, Lord Leyland falls in love with Froniga's (Parliamentary) niece, then falls victim to a gypsy beauty (mother of three cute little bastards named Dinki, Meriful and Cinderella) who hexes him with thorns stuck in his wax image. At death's point Francis is rescued by Yoben, who proves to be a disguised Roman Catholic priest...
...soccer teams Kutis has found some of the glamour he longed for when he got a job with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and bucked to become a reporter. But after he finally got his chance to cover a story, he quit because reporting "didn't really have the glamour it seemed to have," turned to his father's undertaking business instead. Conveniently, what's good for Kutis' morale is good for his pocketbook; his soccer team puts his best foot forward. "You can't advertise much in this business, you know," he says...
...POLE!" shrieked a headline in London's Daily Mail (circ. 2,138-510), and below it, in the hoary old tradition of British I-witness journalism, ran Correspondent Noel Barber's breathless dispatch: "I have reached the South Pole. I am the sixth Briton in history to do so, the first for 45 years since Scott's party of five reached here in 1912, only to perish on the return journey...