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Bass Instinct. Near Whiteville, Tenn., Fisherman William Dower reported an attack: he was fishing peacefully when a large bass leaped from the water, knocked off his glasses, struck him on the temple, gashed him with a fin, victoriously dove back...
...Gandar Dower, Tory M.P. for Caithness and Sutherland, reminisced about the canings he had received as a schoolboy: "I cannot remember that I ever suffered from it, and I took my revenge on my housemaster years later by making him my trustee and executor of my will. I think that that will show that I bore no ill will...
...spatterware spittoon from a New England Paul Revere soup ladle, Norristown's antique show, held a flight of stairs above an old market where bearded Amish and Mennonite farmers sell their produce, offered as much good hunting as a well-stocked game preserve. Its gaily painted kitchen cabinets, dower chests, desks and tables, Bethlehem painted glass, grotesque Germanic Toby jugs and brightly colored tinware are far more colorful than the prim, functional antiques of New England. Their artistic flavor was well represented by Norristown's reconstructed old-fashioned Pennsylvania Dutch country store, in which heavily skirted, buxom saleswomen...
...tabloid Cinderella, now 31, got married for the third time last week. Her latest is Joseph S. Civelli, San Francisco department-store executive. Wealthy "Daddy" Browning married her in 1926 when she was 15, cut her out of his will before he died in 1934, but she got dower rights of $5,000 a year. She sang for a while without much success in burlesque, in 1934 married a Denver theater manager, divorced...
...Washington, were cronies of President Harding and his Cabinet members. Adjudged insane in 1933, McLean died in a sanatorium. His will, made in 1931, left $300,000 to Cinemactress Marion Davies' sister, Rose, for "her association and affection"; $5,000 to each of his three children, and dower rights to his widow...