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Humming through Georgia one night in his brand-new Oldsmobile, Georgia's ex-Governor Herman Talmadge, on his way home from a rousing speech to some farmers, ran into one of his state's worst rural problems. Two stray mules suddenly loomed up before his car on the road. "I hit one and turned over," recalled Talmadge. "It killed the mule. I'm just a little bruised." His car was a total wreck. Though his victim was out of the harness for good, Talmadge was soon fitted for one by doctors: X-ray photos showed that...
After a few stray kiss-and-cuddle sessions with boys her own age, she meets 32-year-old Ned Skelton ("He's a man's man-brrr! Poona and all that"). Ned is brutal; she takes it for masculinity. He hates her friends; she takes that for judgment. They have ugly little quarrels; she takes them for tiffs of true love. To Christine, marriage is a kind of exclusive club for grownups, and she is willing to pay any fee to join. With Ned, the fees come high, for he turns out to be a slack-spined, hapless...
Hard Bitten. In San Manuel, Ariz., editors of the San Manuel Miner announced temporary suspension of home delivery after Deliveryman Ralph Vira-montez resigned because he was tired of fighting off the stray dogs around town...
...tourney's benefactor, Mrs. Spensor Penrose, 86 year-old owner of the Broadmoor Hotel and the principal motivation behind the hotel's sponsorship of the tournament, was carried from the palace early in the second period when she was hit on the head by a stray puck...
...streets are choked with gaudily painted, bell-tingling pedicabs, with tiny, pony-drawn gharries, with stray livestock and rickety prewar Fords and Chevrolets, all cowed by the horn-blasting Packards, Cadillacs and Mercedes of government officials, black marketeers, Chinese and European traders. The near chaos of Djakarta's streets is symptomatic of the near chaos-economic, political and social-of the whole republic...