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Extreme Cruelty. In Lawrence, Mass., Mrs. Jeanie R. Gordon sued for divorce, said that her husband threw her parrot out the window when the bird snitched on him for coming home late. In Portland, Me., Raymond Bracey, seeking a divorce, complained that his wife not only served him pea soup for breakfast and dinner but put pea-soup sandwiches in his lunch...
...Pea-Green Bus. An observation team from the U.N.'s Balkan Commission flew into loannina last week and, accompanied by reporters, started for the fighting zone in a pea-green bus. They were a strangely assorted crew. India's press representative was a small neat man in a midnight blue Homburg and black canvas overshoes. Mexican Captain Soto Mc-Nerney was resplendent in a green hunting costume, with fur collar, from Manhattan's Abercrombie & Fitch. The London Times man, clad in street clothes and carrying a neatly rolled umbrella, looked as though he had just stepped...
Trainer Kimmy Cox was in front of Dillion Field House calling calisthenie signals, but only the straining figures of Tom Sullivan, Nicholas Athens, Pete Leavitt, and a bespectacled youth with a pea-shooter seemed to be manifesting any interest...
...ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef's and Liverpool House. Just around the corner there is a sailor's club where last season an average of 300 sailors a night were quartered...
...antique, 25-stringed harp, looks like a huge, bunged-up kayak, makes sounds about like a dried pea dropped four feet into a saucepan...