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...acquired a couple of nicknames: "Double-Barrel Shotgun" Connally, a tribute to his skinniness, and "Talking Tom," a tribute to his wagging tongue. His college days were briefly interrupted when he volunteered for the Spanish-American War; but his regiment saw no action. Settling down to law practice in Marlin (pop. then: 3,092) after the war, he found business none too brisk. Soon he ran for the legislature. After two terms he went back to the law again for twelve years, with a four-year stretch as prosecuting attorney of Falls County sandwiched in. Texas had frequent killings...
Ordinary, earth-bound citizens can find: gasoline-electric generators, rubber hose, portable air compressors, tube bending tables, electric concrete drills, assorted hammers, miter boxes, saws, marlin spikes, drills and bits, wrenches, pliers, nippers, turpentine, castor oil, hinges, screws, nuts, bolts, washers ("Just What You've Been Waiting For!")-even typewriter ribbons and photograph albums. All goods are sold on the basis of bids...
STANLEY WAXMAN is going great guns with his Company Charlie baseball league and some real stars have been found. . . . DONALD KOSKOFF gets posies for the longest hit so far . . . and JOHN BERRINGTON the left-handed marlin spike for this pitching a no-hitter...
...sudden arrival of a lonely spouse returning to the side of Navy Supply School student Marlin Withrow has caused an abrupt and complete curtailment in the social activity of said student...
...thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe. President Harding was enroute there when he died in San Francisco. Winston Churchill fished for marlin off the island in 1929. Aboard his yacht, Errol Flynn allegedly was host to 15-year-old Peggy Satterlee, sailing from Catalina to San Pedro...