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...National Skeet Shooting Association. First crack out of the box, in the 28-gauge event, two youngsters - 15-year-old Bobby Parker and 18-year-old Dick Shaughnessy - after tying three other contestants (at 99 out of 100) fought a breathtaking, shoulder-to-shoulder duel for five 25-bird shoot-offs before Parker finally missed a bird. It was the longest shoot-off witnessed on any skeet field since the sport was invented 14 years...
...note of Whittier's country. . . . The pastoral stretches along the rivers, with their long lines of barns and sheds, blossomed with shadbush, the 'shad-blow,' for April in these valleys was the time of shadding, and the fish gave its name to flower and bird...
...vaudeville boomed again last week as six 1940 candidates for Governor, including Pappy O'Daniel, wound up their primary campaigns. This year, from Lee O'Daniel's troupe, two star attractions were weaned away: crooning Banjo Player Leon Huff and Steel Guitarist Kermit ("Horace the Love Bird") Whalen. They joined the company of snuff-dipping, wisecracking Candidate Gerald Anthony ("Jerry") Sadler, 32, onetime bellhop, now a member of the Texas Railroad Commission. The other four candidates were...
...attempted to give Alcott a physical tossing around. Jap terrorists tried to drag him out of a rickshaw in the American Defense Zone of the International Settlement, but he escaped through an alley. Since then he has used a Packard with bulletproof glass, toted a gun. Busy as a bird dog, Alcott serves as cable editor of the China Press between broadcasts, improvises his scripts from news flashes that come over his desk. Married recently to a White Russian he met in the Settlement, Alcott is thinking of settling down. If the Japs...
...Miss Royce was fired and replaced by Miss Tirza, who bathes in wine. Thereupon Rosita Royce entered suit against the White Way Casino. Indignantly she pointed out that, besides asking her to work too much, the Casino had failed to protect her doves from an unknown bird fancier, who took pot shots at the doves with a BB gun while they were protecting strategic points. At last, she said, she had appealed to Fair Chairman Harvey D. Gibson, who gave her a game warden to protect her fowl. At week's end Rosita had appealed to the American Guild...