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...Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 35, Manhattan's first Negro Congressman-elect, who preaches hellfire in a gates-ajar collar to his flock at Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church and kisses the womenfolk in the congregation afterward, ran into parsonage trouble. Mrs. Powell, a onetime nightclub performer, sued for separation after eleven years of marriage, charged Pastor Powell with "infatuation" for another nightclub performer. Broadway wiseacres immediately identified the parsonage-wrecker as round-eyed Pianist Hazel Scott, famed in café society for blending boogie-woogie with Bach. Asking the court to grant her $100 a week temporary alimony...
Migrating birds generally fly at less than 3,000 ft. above ground level, but in getting over mountains ducks have been known to reach 7,500 ft. above sea level, cranes and condors, 20,000 ft. Highest recorded bird altitude (reached by a flock of geese photographed in India): 29,000 ft. Ornithologists believe that birds may be helped in blind flying by a brain mechanism sensitive to changes in altitude...
...June 11, the Skipper, Bill Dean, led them over Guam and Rota. That day, for the first time, the Rippers flew on top of the war. June 19 Wilbur ("Spider") Webb slid into a flock of Jap dive bombers circling to land on Guam and knocked off six, ending his rampage with only one gun still working. On that day the Rippers got 51 planes in aerial combat, a record which the Rippers shattered themselves five days later by shooting down 67 planes over Iwo Jima...
...Last week the Pope was described in a letter from Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York to his flock: "I . . . found him aged, thin and saddened since I had last seen him. Fifteen months of anxiety and pain have taken a heavy toll. No robust physical stature nor strong broad shoulders has the Pope to bear the sorrows of the world, but the Christlike figure, Christlike shoulders and above all a Christlike sanctity and spirit . . . he reminds me of the wounded Christ...
...pastures." In 1955 continental Europe and Asia, including Russia, became German colonies. In 1960 Britain, charged with molesting a group of visiting penitents under 14 years of age, was quickly subjugated. The same year Friedolin (now revealed as a onetime general in the Wehrmacht) landed an irresistible flock in Manhattan, "this city which from today shall be named Greater Yorkville...