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...Constance Philippa runs away on her wedding night, leaving in her bed a dressmaker's dummy with which her unknowing husband consummates the marriage. Fleeing west, Constance disguises herself so persuasively as the brave and manly Philippe Fox that she is appointed Assistant Deputy to the United States Marshal for Southeast Arizona, and inexplicably becomes a 'member of the masculine gender, complete in all physiological requirements as to genitalia...
DIED. Ivan Bagramian, 84, leading Soviet military strategist during World War II and commander of the First Baltic Army; in Moscow. Armenian-born Marshal Bagramian became a national hero in the Soviet Union when in the winter and spring of 1943-44 he directed the campaign that led to the taking of the Baltic republics and the breaking of the Nazi invasion on that front...
Reversing a three year trend of increasing class marshal candidacies, fewer seniors filed petitions by yesterday's deadline raising concern about the new way administrators handled the application process...
...several applicants said they believed that the difficulty of noticing the marshal information was more to blame for the deadline than the advanced deadline. Last years seniors received individual letters describing the application process, while the class of '83 received sheet in the registration packets...
...think most of the people are able to pay and are just holding out," Robert O'Connell, U.S. Marshal in charge of the confiscation, said. He added: "Most can do it in installments, but others are just playing hide and seek with the government and costing money to all taxpayers," he added...