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Call of the Wild. In Nashville, members of Vanderbilt University's Kappa Alpha Order (Southern) eagerly chased what they thought was their deodorized pet skunk, name of General Sherman, learned too late it was another skunk...
Later that day Actress Bennett's chauffeur drew up to Hedda's home and delivered another remembrance: a live skunk (deodorized). Sniffed Joan, still smarting over a recent crack at her in Hedda's column: "I've had enough...
...thought to get Hedda Hopper into a hissing match with a skunk, she had underestimated her fox. Baring her claws a bit, Hedda told a newsman: "I didn't think the Wangers could afford the ad ... I'm completely surprised but completely amused." To her readers she sweetly announced: "It was a good publicity skunk and beautifully behaved. I christened it Joan." Then she gave the animal to the James Masons, who had been looking for one "as a companion for their nine cats. Seems there is a great affinity between cats and skunks...
Like the unhappy inhabitants of Bird in Hand, Pa., and Kissimmee, Fla., the citizens of Mahwah, N.J. were getting sick & tired of the indignities directed their way. The name was not quite as bad as Dogpatch or Skunk Hollow, but it was not even granted the same recognition. When Mahwah appeared on envelopes, mail sorters sighed patiently, made a correction and directed the letter to Rahway or Mohawk. Last week the aroused businessmen of Mahwah took a quarter-page advertisement in the New York Times to set people straight about their town...
Martha watched little Ray with a she-bear's jealousy, insisted on posing as his sister and sharing his honeymoon trysts. When he was wooing one Irene D. La Point of Springfield, Vt., Martha wrote the woman "hideous things" about him. Irene wrote: "You skunk-but I love you, darn it." The romance was broken...