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...Dickinson's statement that in his consulting work he has found a great increase in the number of engaged couples who confess pre-nuptial relations, should be evaluated in the light of the fact that in recent years he has become a world-renowned leader of medical research concerning birth control. Dr. Dearborn is a psychologist who helps people with their mental troubles...
...years later (1824) a pre-nuptial flight ended in tragedy. The English aeronaut Thomas Harris took his fiancee up in a balloon from Vauxhall, London. After getting altitude he opened a hydrogen valve, to hover in the skies with his lady. Then occurred the same mishap as befell Commander Settle and his stratosphere balloon over Chicago last fortnight. The valve refused to close again, down came the balloon. Aeronaut Harris dumped all ballast, threw overboard his own clothing and even his fiancee's. Still the balloon plunged downward. Grimly Harris kissed his companion goodbye, then jumped to his death...
Child bride & child groom statistics for the nuptial year just closed were released recently by the Court of His Highness the Maharaja of Mysore. His Highness, a frequent visitor to the law-breaking Occident, thought it quite all right to publish child marriage statistics, despite the fact that by law of 1894 females under 8 may not marry in his state of Mysore...
Seemingly this nuptial fact was the basis on which King Vittorio Emanuele III ventured last week to pardon Leo Moulin who has served but eight months of his sentence. Stiffly the Dictator's office announced that a special guard would accompany Professor Moulin to the frontier; he would never again be allowed inside Italy...
...heath hens. Next year only three birds were left. After Dec. 8, 1928, there was only one heath-cock in all Martha's Vineyard. Wary, he was seldom seen far from the scrub oaks where he "used," but occasionally observers saw him perform his kind's famed nuptial dance, though no mate was there to see it. More & more lonely he grew, began to boom (spread his feathers, inflate his sacs, dance) in places where no heath-cock had ever been known to boom before. Then he too disappeared and last summer Professor Alfred Otto Gross of Bowdoin...