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...Kansas City, Mo., weather forecasters of the American Meteorological Society picked an "ideal day" for their annual picnic, were rained...
During the night the Great Lakes pleasure ship Hamonic moved through Lake St. Clair and up the St. Clair River from Detroit and Windsor. An hour after daybreak she eased into the dock at Point Edward, Ont. Her 247 passengers, most of them Americans, got up drowsily for a picnic ashore. Later, 80-odd more passengers would arrive from Toronto. Then the Canada Steamship Lines' 36-year-old ship would shove off for Duluth, Minn, as she had done many times for many summers...
Music Teacher Phyllis Brefka, 23, was just about to strike up the band at the annual Mayville (Wis.) High School graduation picnic. Suddenly four graduating girls who disliked her grading system swooped, grabbed her, dumped her in a nearby river. Last fortnight each of the four was fined $15 plus $11.30 costs. Teacher Brefka had filed charges, "in the hope," she said, "that it would discourage "other pupils from subjecting more teachers to involuntary baths...
...about 180-odd miles from Toronto and has, in addition to the above-mentioned fauna, bear, mink, moose, and wolves (researchers beware). It is, in fact, Algonquin Provincial Park, with a post office and all, some 1,500 lakes, covering, I would guess, about 3,000 sq. mi. of "picnic grounds," mostly second-growth coniferous stand, with some virgin timber in the north...
...steel. Head bowed, the General signed his name in the register of bereavement at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. Pope Pius XII felt it. He was at his desk in the Vatican when word came. Britain's King George felt it. He and Queen Elizabeth, remembering a past picnic at Hyde Park, had been looking forward to a visit soon from Franklin Roosevelt and to putting him up at Buckingham Palace. Now their Court Circular, for the first time in history, recorded the death of a foreign chief of state...