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Hillbilly Come-On. One afternoon when he drove into Mendenhall, seat of Simpson County, only seven courthouse loafers were on hand to greet him. To drum up a crowd, his nephew, Cason Rankin, hooked up a loudspeaker in the Congressman's black Buick sedan, toured the town playing hillbilly recordings. But half an hour's driving netted only three more shirtsleeved listeners. John Rankin brushed back his mane of stringy yellow hair, flung out his arms and shouted...
Died. H. Estelle Rornaine Manville, 73, socialite widow of Asbestos King H. Edward Manville; following a brain operation; in New Rochelle, N.Y. Widow Manville, enormously proud of daughter Estelle, who married the King of Sweden's nephew, Count Folke Bernadotte, was not at all proud of nephew Tommy Manville, who was having wife-trouble as usual last week (with...
...reward of the former Czech president's nephew, and eventually the same for even the one unlucky rider stopped by a flat, was not the kiss of former years but a cookie and a cup of cider. Later the weary peddlers also enjoyed a brief picnic with the Wellesley greeting committee...
Died. Thomas Horatio Nelson, fourth Earl Nelson, 89, great-great-nephew of the hero of Trafalgar; in Salisbury, England. In 1806 a grateful Parliament voted the Nelson family a ?5,000 annuity; in 1946 the Labor Government decided that the nation's debt had been paid: the annuity will stop with the death of Thomas' brother, Edward Agar Horatio...
...Bombay mass meeting, a "revolutionary government" was formed which declared war on the Nawab. The "revolutionary" Premier: Samaldas Laxmidas Gandhi; portly nephew of Mohandas K. Gandhi...