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...Married. Emmett Kelly, 56, famed hobo clown of the Ringling Brothers circus and Hollywood (The Greatest Show on Earth) and Elveria Gebhardt, 22, circus acrobat; he for the third time, she for the first; in Edgewater...
...Columbus, Miss., the Bank of Commerce told Negro Dentist Emmett Stringer, ex-president of the state N.A.A.C.P., that though it had lent him money in the past, it would not do so in the future. Other citizens have taken up the practice of calling Stringer's mother up in the middle of the night to report: "Dr. Stringer has been killed." Added one imaginative caller: "Do you have his body...
...sight of English Runner Jim Peters' collapse in the last quarter-mile of the marathon at the British Empire Games (TIME, Aug. 16) moved many spectators to indignant comment. None used sharper words than the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's Columnist Emmett Watson...
Last week, after he posted bond, Attorney General Garrett denied his father's statements about his mental condition. But Circuit Solicitor Emmett Perry filed a lunacy petition against the attorney general so that a court could pass on his mental condition, thus preventing it from becoming an issue in the vote-fraud trial. Two days later, just across the Mississippi state line near Waynesboro, Garrett's car plunged off the highway. His neck was broken, one elbow fractured and his left ear almost torn off. But doctors said the attorney general of Alabama will live to stand trial...
...General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnell, know that they can never hope to outbid industry on straight wages. They believe, as Army and Navy officers believe, that they can create stability by offering a way of life that combines the patriotic motive with the traditional privileges of the military. They wince as the Federal Government has clipped away such "fringe benefits" as housing, educational programs, recreation facilities, PXs, commissaries, adequate medical care for dependents. Even officers who never bought a bottle of whisky felt the ultimate in dejection last month when the Defense Department reversed its order allowing package liquor...