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Husband's Mite. In Hamilton, Ohio, denying charges of nonsupport, Edison Hughes was asked what he had given his family, answered, "Well, I took some wine home to settle the wife's nerves," got six months in jail...
...back a clear $630,000 for a nonexistent "National Cancer Hospital." The cost of fundraising: $435,000. Another Chicago outfit raised $2,531,000 for the relief of war widows and orphans aided by Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. After fund-raising expenses were deducted, the widows' mite...
When Lowenstein entered the game in the ninth minute it was scoreless; and when he left it after four minutes of the fourth quarter it was 42-6 with the mighty mite almost entirely to blame...
Hollywood's strong, silent actor Alan (Shane) Ladd, off to Spain to make a picture, boarded the Queen Elizabeth in a wheelchair after telling how he had come to break his ankle: while romping with his six-year-old son in an Ottawa hotel room, things got a mite too playful, and he tripped over a chair...
...Quantico, Va. last week, the Marine Corps showed off its new Mighty Mite a pint-size cousin of the wartime jeep (40 inches shorter and 1,300 lbs. lighter) The spunky little auto has no muffler (the tubular frame acts as one) and no axles (each wheel is independently sprung), and can plow through knee-deep mud, ford streams, hit 45 m.p.h. on a level highway, climb an 87% grade and be airlifted by helicopter. The Marines have ordered ten Mites powered by 65-h.p. Lycoming air-cooled engines, from Mid-America Research Corp. of Wheatland...