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...Marrying Mdivanis" of Georgia. In 1923 a General Zakhari Mdivani appeared in Paris. As a Mohammedan chieftain of the Caucasus, he was recognized as a Bey or Prince by the Russian Imperial Court. which acknowledged all Georgian "Princes" possessed of a pair of shoes, a stone house, a flock of sheep and a rifle. Prince Mdivani (pronounced Mmmdivani) had little money, but. as a Circassian Cornelia, he had his jewels; five children, all very good looking...
...watching 18-month-old Carol Krieg when she crawled into a chicken yard in Hood River, Ore. one day last week. But a big Rhode Island Red rooster was soon angrily aware of the intrusion on his flock. Like daggers his big spurs flashed across the baby's head. A physician found the child's thin skull was fractured. Pneumonia set in and two days later Baby Krieg was dead. Hood River's Police Chief William Hart, the child's grandfather, ordered her murderer's execution...
Father Damien lived on with his afflicted flock until 1889. Three years before he died he was joined by "Brother Joseph" (Ira Barnes Dutton), a Vermont-born Civil War hero who had been converted and gone to Molokai because he wished to expiate youthful frivolities. In 44 years Brother Joseph left Molokai only once, to have his eyes treated in Honolulu. He died two years ago at 87, but not of leprosy (TIME, April 6, 1931). Last week the world had word of one of Brother Joseph's successors. Father Peter d'Orgueval...
Shepherd Hall, the black sheep of the University's flock of dormitories, will no longer constitute a domicile for dropped Freshmen and occasional graduate students, it was learned from University Hall yesterday...
...course for Macon 500 mi. away. The others, veterans of the christening of the Akron in 1931, had to flutter only three miles to the coops of Tire Builder Frank Eisentraut on the north side of town and were home in five minutes. However, 14 of the Eisentraut flock disgraced themselves by choosing comfortable perches among the lofty girders of the dock, where they remained until the next...