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...years Duffy's has acquired about 7,000,000 steady listeners. Prisoners at San Quentin (their warden's name is Duffy) like the show so much that they call their jail Duffy's Tavern. The program contains some of radio's oddest characters. Duffy, proprietor of a Third Avenue saloon where "the elite meet to eat," never shows up, is merely a stubborn Irish character on the telephone. Another off-stage character is a man with two heads named Two-Top Gruskin, who once attended a masquerade as a pair of book ends holding a book...
...born owner of Cody's finest general store and livestock ranch. Suave, handsome E. V. Robertson, who once refused a $7,500 AAA soil-conservation check, is no machine politician; he has his own ideas about progressive government. He will also have one of the Senate's oddest hobbies: making ranch-building models out of matchsticks...
This Moses-meek reply sounded like the start of the oddest Senate campaign in Illinois history. Democrat Kelly is a close friend of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the politically potent Chicago Tribune. But Republican Brooks-an isolationist until Pearl Harbor, and the man who got a conviction for the alleged murderer of Tribune Reporter Jake Lingle-is the Tribune's darling...
...geology's oddest puzzles an odd solution was last week suggested. The puzzle was the origin of "devil's corkscrews," which are fossils six to eight feet high, spiral in shape, with whorls eight inches to three feet in diameter. Buried vertically, they are found in Nebraska's Sioux County in Miocene deposits 15-to 30,000,000 years old. Moreover, fossil beavers have been found in several of the fossil corkscrews, in which microscopic study shows an abundance of petrified plant cells. So two theories arose...
...Oddest story of the brief war came from Ecuador authorities, who charged that Peru had 3,000 Japanese soldiers in its front lines. It had been rumored earlier that Japan had offered Peru the use of 5,000 trained Japanese reservists for an attack on Ecuador. Said Peru: the report was ''laughable, ridiculous and contemptible." But any sons, born in Peru, of the numerous Japanese residents there would be liable for service with the Peruvian Army...