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Even after an excellent, but brittle project had been shattered into a zillion fragments, the job of scarping up the residue was badly hacked. Mr. Durant agreed to help the Council committee release a ton of wheat each week for shipment abroad, but demanded a mandate from the student body. This necessitated a poll. It was ready in five long weeks and promptly voted by a fourteen-man session of the Council. Hoping to get everything just right when speed was the important factor, the committee launched into a lengthy correspondence with Charles Lauckman. He returned a five question, sheet...
...Chicago Tribune's tall, tired-looking Photographer Frederick Giese had been covering courts for eleven years. He had stuck his head into Judge Joseph Sabath's court about a zillion times. What had he seen? Well, brother, he'd never seen no Gypsy Rose Lee dancing in the jury box. Just jerks he had to photograph. But since it was his life work he looked in again one day last week. Nope. The joint looked haunted. Nobody inside but a black-haired young guy, a blonde dame, and a lot of empty seats...
...Same with the dame. She was Eleanor Mannino, age 21. They were sore because they had gotten a divorce last December. They were sitting on opposite sides of the room, waiting to see the judge about the dame getting more money for their baby. Giese had seen a zillion like them. But he decided to give them the benefit of some good advice...