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Like his father, genial, rugged Bishop Smith, 67, was once an oil operator in his native Pennsylvania. Although he had a wife to support, he later turned to the ministry. "I don't know why," he says. "It is just one of those things." After 23 years of pastoral work (chiefly at Buffalo's fashionable Delaware Avenue Church, Detroit's big Central Church), he was chosen a Bishop, assigned to far-off Bangalore, India. There Bishop Smith diversified his episcopal duties by shooting tigers. The skin of the first tiger that glared back at Bangalore...
...swampy Vermilion Parish, La. took out a $25 war bond in his name, planned to send it to him; the residents of Newton, Mass, sent $1,300 worth of bonds to him "and the Russian people"; and 76-year-old S. Kent Costikyan, Manhattan's rug king, proposed in a letter to the New York Times that somebody give him some sort of honorary degree...
...suitors leaped into a lake at her command. In 1892 (she claimed) he hired Brighton's swimming baths for their exclusive honeymoon use. In Three Weeks (1907) she revealed the effects on each other of a Swiss hotel, a Russian enchantress, a clean young Englishman, and a tigerskin rug. In Hollywood in 1927 she modernized these horse-&-buggyish ardors in the road-sterish form of It, thus provided a racy vehicle for Cinemactress Clara...
...behind this military rug cutting was Captain Glenn Miller, late recruit from the swank hotel ballrooms and broadcasting studios. Embarking on an earnest crusade to put swing on the U.S. parade ground, Captain Miller first taught his boys to swing the military classics. Then he militarized a few items like St. Louis Blues and the Jersey Bounce. Finally he got the urge to touch up some of the late great John Philip Sousa's scores with hot licks and modern dance-hall harmonies...
Sleepy Report. In Oakland, Calif., Mr. & Mrs. Leo W. Gero were reported to have slept while the rug and floor blazed under their bed, slept while the fire apparatus roared up to the house, while the firemen piled in, while they fought the blaze and put it out, and left, carefully locking the door behind them...