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Even his best friends disagreed about the Town Crier's real nature. Acid Poetess Dorothy Parker believed he had "done more kindness than anyone I have ever known." Novelist Edna Ferber called him a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." Sometimes his most devoted admirers found his cantankerousness hard to bear. "I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss," he once snarled at a guest. "How about getting the hell out of here...
...Miss Edna" decided long ago that one of the things her sleepy community...
...most needed was to have its cattle fenced in. "Miss Edna" is Mrs. Edna Cain Daniel, editor & publisher of the Quitman, Ga. Free Press (circ...
...Miss Edna shut him up with a front-page editorial headed "Buttermilk Bennett." Last fortnight Brooks County, of which Quitman is the county seat, was at last persuaded: it passed a law requiring cattle to be fenced. Said Editor Daniel, in quiet triumph: "The farmers are boycotting us now, but they'll get over it." Despite this thumping victory, Miss Edna could not afford to relax. For months she has watched the draft creep up on 50% of her composing-room staff, healthy Frank Ramew, 26 (Frank's father, J. H., is the staff's other half...
Supporting Evidence. In Manhattan. Edna Dessau, shot and severely wounded last year by one Dr. Samuel Weinrib, told Judge Jonah Goldstein that she did not care about prosecuting the doctor; she merely wanted the return of her prewar girdle, through which the bullet passed. Judge Goldstein refused on the ground that the girdle was state's evidence...