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...hill. St. Christopher's Inn, housing 200 men, has become too small, is to have a five-story addition. Last year the friars handed out 175,000 meals. No questions are asked of any Brother Chris topher except his name and the name of his next of kin. The friars, supported by outside donations, give their lodgers 10? worth of tobacco or candy a day, ask those who stay more than a day to work. Most stay about six weeks; one Brother Christopher remained for 15 years before drifting away...
...Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president of the National Mother-in-Law Club, carried a sign reading: " 'MOTHER IN LAW' IS GOOD ENOUGH...
...since the Russian invasion of Finland began, citizens of Moscow, Idaho (pop. 5,500) have been restive about their town's name. When the Indians used to go to this fertile valley at the foot of the Thatuna Hills to gather camas roots, they called the place Tat-Kin-Mah, which means the land of the spotted deer. First white settlers called it Paradise, and Paradise Valley it remained until 1876, when President Grant named the post office Moscow. Because there was a good deal of U. S. sympathy for Russia in the Crimean War, there were a good...
Governor Homer Adams Holt of West Virginia, faint kin to U. S. Senator Rush Holt, donned old lace and a veil, clutched a large bouquet in a Charleston Junior League revue called Dream of a Clown. Flower girls to His Excellency's bride were former Governor Herman Guy Kump and Walter Eli Clark, Charleston publisher and onetime Governor of Alaska...
...Bracky's no-good cousins, Harl and Tibb Logan, came to live with the Baldridges. The dried beans ran out fast. Then soft, lazy Uncle Samp came and stayed, his thin grey mustache so long he wrapped the ends around his ears. "Even if they are your blood kin, we can't feed them much longer," Mother said...