Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Time for Overtime. In Mineola, L.I., Judge Serenbetz got a surprise when Mrs. Baumwart, confronted with a $2 fine or a day in jail for overtime parking, at her husband's request chose the latter. Said Mr. Baumwart: "It's a matter of principle...
...jailees were members of a small (2,500 or so members), dissident sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They are known as the "Fundamentalists." Their leader, 71-year-old Joseph W. Musser, did not deny that he had five wives, 20 children. Other Fundamentalists were said to have as many as six wives, 33 children. Musser predicted that polygamy will some day be permitted in U.S. as boon to surplus women who would otherwise be forced into prostitution...
...their craft; none will deny he is the hardest working. He never takes a day off. He has some 50 assorted sources he taps regularly by pedal work or phone. It has been said that the difference between a good reporter and a brilliant one is that the latter has known his sources more than 20 years. Kuh has been a correspondent in Europe most of 24 years. Says he: "At least one man I knew 24 years ago was then just above a male charwoman in rank; now he is quite high up in an Allied government." Kuh apparently...
...latter is not quite so easy as 47 year-old Baker makes out. The audience is encouraged to heckle Baker and the contestant. If the audience thinks the contestant is not equal to, say, the $32 question, they warn him to pocket his money and leave, chanting: "You'll be sorry." Such challenges Baker must meet with his unrehearsed patter out of years of experience (beginning in Philadelphia, much of it in vaudeville...
...Sturges-Hughes, Inc. (the latter insisted that the former come first) has rented five sound stages at Harry Sherman's California Studios, will rent more space as needed. The new corporation plans to make some 20 films, has no idea through whom they will be released, what the first one will be, who will star, or when production will start. The plan is to begin modestly, and grow great slowly...