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These facts came to light and U. S. preachers, welfare workers and lawmakers beat their breasts last week because, on a backwoods road near Treadway. Tenn., a hillbilly parson named Walter Lamb had joined in wedlock Hillbilly Charlie Johns, 22, and Eunice Winstead, 9 (TIME, Feb. 8). Newshawks sought out Parson Lamb, a husky, red-headed Baptist living with his wife in a two-room cabin in Hancock County, only county in Tennessee which has no telephones, no telegraph, not a foot of paved highway. Said Preacher Lamb, who for some years has lived only a mile away from...
...know. A man who has God's word married my daughter. . . . They don't actually live as man and wife. Why, she's still my child, just my little baby. He treats her just like always, except they sleep in the same room now." Said Father Winstead: "What God hath joined together let no man put asunder. I wouldn't put my soul in danger of hell fire to bust up the marriage of a couple of young 'uns that love each other...
...Sneedville, Term., lanky Hill-Billy Charlie Johns, 22, married blue-eyed third-grader Eunice Winstead, 9. Reverend Walter Lamb said he had performed the ceremony on a lonely road when they accosted him, told him that "if I didn't marry them some one else would." For a wedding present the groom gave the bride a doll. Said Eunice's mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee...
...vain have I waited for TIME'S admirable "Cinema" Editor to report and expose Ingagi, Sir Hubert Winstead's African picture with supplied sound effects, which has startled staid Denver by its sensational and supposedly "scientific" shots...
...Hubert Winstead, F. A. S. (also F. R. G. S.)" and the "Captain Swayne, young American big-game hunter," supposed explorer-authors of the picture, are utterly unknown if not fictitious persons...