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...Herald, oldest daily newspaper in Birmingham, Ala., was sold last week. The buyer was E. D. DeWitt of Manhattan who used to manage the late Grocer-Publisher Frank A. Munsey's New York Herald. Mr. DeWitt told Birmingham two things: 1) that he had paid the Age-Herald's previous owners a "handsome profit" on their original investment; 2) that he was not going to change the staff or policies that had kept the Age-Herald "in step with the best thought of the community." These were good businesslike statements by a man entering a booming city...
...mother in on the secret." In one case, the Judge will personally arrange for the baby to be smuggled away at birth to a childless couple. In another, he will summon a proud citizen and make him agree to let his son marry the grocer's daughter. Almost always he fixes it. But, in 26 years, he has found that what happens sexually is so different from the current sex-mores that he has finally (TIME, Jan. 24) come out for a change in the law to permit trial or "Companionate" marriages...
...father a sort of pocket-borough St. Francis of Assisi. He fills her heart with restlessness and her head with innocent resolution, keeps her procrastinating over escape until her father's mania for feeding birds is quite pronounced, until she has a friend and perhaps lover in the grocer's son, until one more village Easter passes and the first nightingale has sung. Then go she does, Anne Dunnock of Dry Coulter, to equivocal Paris where the grocer's son, an artist, turns out to be no lover at all but her means of meeting one, whom...
...Haven, Conn., one Frank Fusaris, grocer, saw one Angelo Cavallaro, barber, fingering his nose. Infuriated, the grocer leaped at the barber, chewed off the offensive nose, spat out the blood. Last week the courts fined him $5,000 mayhem damages, in favor of Barber Cavallaro...
...went back to his Los Angeles boarding house. Next door lived a gentle Chinaman, who sold fruit and groceries. Perhaps this grocer was a relative of the Chinaman in London who sold ginger and started Author Thomas Burke on his notable career as the biographer of the Limehouse District. Perhaps not. But he soothed sad young Mr. Chrisman, by answering questions, telling stories...