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Waving red flags in the streets of Batak, Bulgaria, last week, a group of Communists were routed by the local police. Thereupon they snatched a stork from a good citizen's rooftree, colored it red like their flags, set it free...
Wily indeed were the Communists of Batak. Throughout Central Europe this superstition prevails: that the house upon which a stork rests is bound to be a happy home. Fearful of Batak's wrath should they shoot the stork, policemen chased it up & down the streets. When they drew near, it flapped quickly to a housetop. Reserves were called; at latest reports last week the entire gendarmery of Batak was still stork chasing...
...varied program of instrumental and vocal numbers will be presented tonight at 8.15 o'clock at the John Knowles Paine Hall where the Radcliffe Music Club is giving its Third Annual Concert. The soloists on the program will be Ruth Clemens, 1933, Rosalie Stork, 1933, and Ethel Martien, 1932. Miss Clemens will be accompanied by Lucille Umbreit, 1933 while Miss Stork will be accompanied by Madame Pieretto-Bianco...
Most elaborately constructed were legalistic financial advertisements (Par Value of James Whitney Goit was stated to be $1,000,000), a merchandise receipt (rendered on the New York Stork Exchange for Jill Susan Kahn), and announcements of literary, theatrical or musical productions (Jean Charlotte Steel, "world's greatest eight and three quarters pound coloratura" promising "continuous performance...
Proposal for TIME'S encyclopedia of unique methods of announcing visits of the stork...