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...Huntington, W. Va., Bricklayer A. D. ("Joker") White set out to beat the record of Cleveland's Dr. Thomas H. B. Staggers who had balanced 4,200 matches on the mouth of a beer bottle. "Joker" White successfully stacked up a record 5,400, announced modestly: "I just built 'em up like I'd put up a brick wall...
...Racine, Wis. last week directors of J. I. Case Co. (farm machinery) voted a 6% bonus to all of its 1,700 employes who should be at work on Dec. 1. Joker was that the Case plant had been shut tight since Oct. 27, had no immediate prospect of reopening...
Proctor 6 King-Divorce is granted in England only by a decree nisi or "unless." This juridical joker means that a final decree will be issued in six months (or less at the discretion of the court) "unless" in the meanwhile evidence of a discrediting nature is discovered by the King's Proctor, Sir Thomas Barnes. To this official, a personal appointee of the Sovereign, spiteful persons annually send thousands of anonymous letters. Some of these the King's Proctor turns over to detectives. Some of their snooping turns up facts discreditable enough to impress the blase Proctor...
...usually deliberately obscured until they resemble cyphers requiring careful study before they can be understood. Apparently only interested in such readers as are willing to work. Author Faulkner has compared story telling with the action of a man dealing cards out of a pack, and unobtrusively dropping the joker. The cards of little value are the routine stuff of fiction-descriptions, analysis of motives, local color-and the joker is the key that gives meaning to them...
Here Author Faulkner plays his last joker, for readers of The Sound and the Fury will recall that Quentin Compson himself has been guilty of incest with his sister, and that he commits suicide while at Harvard as a result...