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...Willie took several drinks to brace himself for his work and then wove his way home with his mailbag still loaded. On arrival he jovially dumped 282 Christmas cards on the floor and directed his wife to open the envelopes and remove their contents. Even after Willie was ar rested, the Jackson Park postal station could do no more than ask the 282 mail-less taxpayers to come down and sort through the pile. Postal Inspector F. W. Baleiko, however, was surprised at the public outcry caused by Willie's lapse from grace. "Sometimes," he said wearily, "these substitute...
...went to work on the neighbors with a will. He clobbered the postman with a shovel, yelling "At last I have you, you witch!" He assaulted startled passersby with pitchfork and stave, crying "Witches! Devils!" and accusing them of blowing poisonous vapors into his barn. At last the authorities ar rested Farmer Bading and turned him over to a hospital for observation. Bading proceeded to pass his psychiatric tests with flying colors. Sane as a stoat, said the examining doctor; he just happens to believe in witches: "So do many other people." Last week Farmer Bading was back...
...kinks-the result, Armour supposes, of a bad knee (an old football injury). Ike's main trouble in almost every picture: "His right knee, and consequently his right side, has 'locked' [i.e., stiffened] during the hit." Another of Ike's form faults which Ar mour calls "not permissible": his arms are sometimes bent on the follow-through, instead of going "straight out after the ball...
Italians always make more of a fuss over U.S. dignitaries than any other, but Mrs. Luce's was "the biggest reception any American ambassador ever got," cabled the New York Daily News. The Italian national radio network broadcast her ar rival speech; all but the extremist press carried her picture on Page One, and the weekly Epoca published five pages and 27 pictures...
...sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Then a fellow convict told Rogers of Argosy magazine's "Court of Last Resort," an investigative agency started by Argosy Publisher Henry Stee-ger and Whodunit Writer Erie Stanley (Perry Mason) Gardner (TIME, May 9, 1949). Rogers wrote to Argosy and Ar gosy went to work on the case...