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...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
Sworn in as a deputy, Shevlin has complete discretion over Jane Dale. He uses it to take her duck hunting, feed her peanuts, pay her fine when Judge Clummerhorn, as game warden, arrests her for shooting out of season. By the time they are on their way to be married in the one car that has been concocted out of the two wrecks, everything that can be done with the situation of two people stranded in a hick town has been done, effortlessly and good-humoredly, with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison...
...Woodhaven. L. I.. Mrs. Katherine Shevlin wrote a letter to police in Los Angeles, asked them if they could find out why her son James had not written since March 3. From Los Angeles police came a report that when James tried to escape after being caught in an attempted burglary, they had shot him dead...
...Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills (no kin to Jockey Mills) and his sister, Mrs. Henry Carnegie Phipps, quickly bought Hank Mills's contract for $7,500. This year, Jockey Mills has had 779 mounts, 169 winners, 141 seconds.* He won the Brooklyn and Brookdale Handicaps with Blenheim, the Shevlin Stakes on Faireno. the Potomac Handicap with Dark Secret. Jockeys seldom worry about their weight until they are 20 or more. Small, pink-faced Hank Mills gained 8 Ib. this year, now weighs 98. He has broad shoulders and long strong arms. Famed for bringing in outsiders-as he did with...
Died. James (";Jimmy") De Forest, 68, trainer of boxers; of general complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...