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...print: the only known example of a one-penny postage stamp, black on magenta, printed by hand in 1856 by the stamp-starved inhabitants of British Guiana. Seller: the widow of Plush Manufacturer Arthur M. Hind of Utica, N. Y., whose husband, after World War I, is said to have bought it at auction in Paris for $32,500. Buyer: an anonymous private collector...
...Once Ellsworth saw an old male porcupine who was shuffling around, "emotionally upset." Suddenly he hunched up his back, drew his forefeet close to his body, stood on his hind legs and thumped his feet, clicking his teeth in fast tempo like castanets...
...heart with his cracker-barrel philosophy. Uncle Ezra was in Hollywood, to play in Bob Burns's forthcoming Comin' 'Round the Mountain. So Widow Winnie Whipple, whose ineffectual attempts to land Uncle Ezra furnish continuity of a sort for the program, exclaimed "Hollywood my left hind foot!" and wept that he should turn out to be "nothin' but a Gay Lombardo"-to which Master of Ceremonies Joe Kelly, to make sure everyone got it, rejoined: "You mean a gay Lothario, don't you?" And so on and so on, no chestnuts barred in a script...
...Silver-headed Paul Vories McNutt last week reared up on his fine hind legs, revealed that his status as 1940'$ leading If man is causing him considerable pain. Addressing Indiana University footballers, Paul McNutt touched on stories that he is 1) a stalking horse for Mr. Roosevelt; 2) a club wherewith the President can cow Jim Farley, who would rather have almost anybody nominated but Mr. McNutt; 3) anathema to New Deal extremists like Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, who said last fortnight that Paul McNutt could never win liberal support. Roared genial Mr. McNutt...
...invention of the Christian Church but of our forefathers. The day of the Winter Solstice was holy to our ancestors and the period around the Winter Solstice was filled with the fairyland magic of the Nordic soul. In this period gifts were exchanged without an indecent hind-thought of getting a reward from Heaven in return. The Nordic man did not think of a reward for decent deeds. For us therefore, even the Christian Christmas remains a festival of Germanic love, Germanic ways and Germanic benevolence.-Governor Wilhelm Kube of Brandenburg Province...