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...Oddest attack of last month was reported from Thakin Nu's own home town of Moulmeingyun. A band of Red Flag Communists led by a fair-skinned, 25-year-old girl named Bo Moe Kyi (Officer Clear Sky) swept down at dawn and quietly took over from the police. In the presence of the town elders, Clear Sky removed 60,000 rupees from the government treasury, burned all legal records at the courthouse and emptied the jail...
...soon get a look at one of man's oddest cousins: a hopping, nocturnal, long-tailed-creature called a tarsier. Zoologists are fascinated by tarsiers, which are classed as primates, primitive members of man's own family. But up to now, the tarsier has been admired from afar: there are none in U.S. captivity...
Gene Talmadge's death set off one of the biggest, oddest political rows in U.S. history. The new Georgia constitution provided no clear-cut method of determining his successor. Backers of incumbent Governor Arnall believed that he should continue in office, even though he was constitutionally barred from a second candidacy, and had not run in 1946. Others wanted the General Assembly to choose between the two highest general election write-in candidates: James V. Carmichael and Talmadge's son, Herman (pronounced Hummon to rhyme with summon). Still others tried to make a case for M. E. Thompson...
...season's oddest bit of casting is Pat O'Brien as an art expert employed by a stuffy museum. One night he barges drunkenly into the museum's chaste lobby with a boozy breath and every indication of an intent to wreck the joint. Has he lost his mind? More likely, he is being framed by the mysterious gang of forgers who hope to snatch the museum's loan collection of masterpieces...
...Oddest part of the board's report was its answer to Western Union's argument that it could not afford to raise wages. Ability to pay, said W.U., using one of organized labor's own arguments, should be the principal "determinant of its wages...