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...Holding a 50-year-old pistol in both hands to steady it, Ezekiel Brown, 74, of Colorado Springs, Colo. fired two slugs into a neighbor (after a back-fence quarrel) but failed to kill him. In jail the creaky gunman bitterly told police: "My eyesight ain't what it used...
...Lawlor, who had advertised her willingness to marry any man for $10,000 (TIME, June 7), made her choice. It was Dan Wicker, 33, proprietor of Danny's Musical Bar in Daytona Beach, Fla. The clincher had been a telegram from Danny: "Is you is, or is you ain't gonna be my baby?" Sighed Dorothy: "How could I resist a guy with a sense of humor like that...
...Ain't Nature Grand. The New York Herald Tribune printed a folksy bit of home-town news: "New York City was favored last night with a sunset that rivaled those of the tropics in its splendor . . . Pedestrians in midtown cross streets stopped to watch and remark to each other on its beauty. There were not only cloud strata tinted from brilliant orange to deep mauve, but there were streaks of vivid blue sky and a vertical path of vivid color that resembled the reddish-white color of an open-hearth steel furnace...
...first efforts to correlate relics along France's Ain River with a specific period in world history will take place this summer when Kirke M. Bryan '28, professor of Physiography, and Hallam L. Movius '02, curator of Archaeology, lead an expedition to place these Stone Age people by "glacial chronology...
...this method, especially suitable for the Ain locality, debris and deposits left in the wake of receding ice sheets will be used as rough indeces to periods of time. Glacial deposits in the area and previously found traces of early man indicate that the spot was a choice gathering-place for prehistoric tribes...