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...Tennessee, some 150 members of the Dolly Pond Church gleefully sang, chanted, passed rattlers and copperheads around in defiance of a six-month-old state law against handling snakes at public gatherings. When deputy sheriffs hauled nine of the snake-handlers off to jail, some of the others followed, tried, like Joshua, to shake the jail walls down (with hymns and prayer), declared they would not stop their rituals because "We take our law from...
Modesty. In Romance, Sask., while bathing in a shallow pond, a well-lathered native heard approaching sounds, waited for the buggy and passengers to pass by while he stood his ground, a bucket modestly covering his unlathered head...
Labor relations had become so bad at the Niles-Bement-Pond Co. machine-tool plant in Hartford, Conn. that they could only change for the better. The company's president, Harvardman Charles Walton Deeds, 44, was good at making money (he ran a $40 stake in Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. into a $1,600,000 profit). But he was stiff-necked in his dealings with employees. The C.I.O. United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers Union, which was heavily sprinkled with Communist leaders, was just as tough as President Deeds. Last year their mutual toughness resulted in a bitter...
...Metropolitan District Commissioner has left the rosewater bather out of his calculations this summer with the announcement that over a dozen beaches are now open on the Charles River from the Boston Basin to Populatic Pond 25 miles upstream. More accessible than Revere or Nantasket, Magazine Beach and Gerry's Landing are designed for early morning dips...
...wasn't a picnic at Walden Pond, though, but a tour of Cambridge and Boston bookstores. The 52 enrollees in a six-week intensive course in shorthand and typewriting begin taking dictation today from Mrs. Harold Quinlan of the Boston Catherine Gibbs secretarial school...