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Dolores Costello, 41, blonde screen belle of the '20s and early '30s, was haled into a Los Angeles court by her brother-in-law, Lee LeBlanc. The court had given Dolores custody of his six-year-old daughter; now he wanted the right to see her on weekends...
...start of France's annual Prix Alfred Leblanc balloon race, and nine dauntless aeronauts from France, The Netherlands and Switzerland were on hand to compete for the grand prize of 6,000 francs (about the price of a good pair of shoes). The French aeronaut, Pierre Jacquet, turned up in a natty sports suit and floppy hat with two duck feathers stuck in it. Erich Tilgenkamp, the Swiss entry, looked trim and sharp in his checkered cap, despite an anguished evening spent searching for his balloon, which had somehow got lost in the freight shed of Paris' Gare...
West Pubnico has 1,426 citizens, and 1,422 of them are related by birth or marriage. West Pubnico has no local taxes, no courts, no jail. Not in 15 years has anyone been arrested. Said Pubniconian Mrs. Henry Leblanc: "The Mounties from Yarmouth used to come around, but now we hardly ever see them. They just can't find any business down here." West Pubnico has no mayor nor town council, and there are no local laws...
...hardy Pubniconian men go after lobster, herring, mackerel and tuna. Winters they repair their nets, tend their cows and chickens, live off their home-grown vegetables and the fish they salted away, and generally take life easy in their tidy, white-frame homes which are clustered about Father Leblanc's St. Peter's Church...
...reasons that no big-city dweller would have trouble understanding, folks live a long time in quiet, peaceful West Pubnico; Dr. Philippe d'Entremont and Dr. Thomas Leblanc (who married a d'Entremont) are never too busy. Pubniconians who die before they are 80 are accounted victims of accident. Some manage to attain...