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...almost anything may happen. The reader, too, contributes to the confusion. Some newspaper headlines are hard to decipher in mid-January, but the haze of heat distorts even those which make sense. For instance, when the Drifter read in the Herald Tribune on August 14 that "Hull's Kin Visits His Frigate," it was quite natural, in view of the recent unpleasantness at London, that he should think of Cordell. What was his amazement, then, to read in the second line that "Granddaughter, 82, Is Shown Over Old Ironsides!" --The Nation...
...Joseph F. Hiestand of Hillsboro, Ohio: the 500-target amateur trapshooting championship of the world, with 497 breaks (including an unfinished run of 326) to 494 for Walter S. Beaver of Berwyn, Pa.; at Yorklyn, Del. ¶ Jack Hagen, Long Island golf professional (no kin): a prize in the N. Y. World-Telegram's hole-in-one competition when, first to play among more than 400 entrants, he plunked his third try (out of five allowed) into the hole (148 yd.) on the fly. The hole used was on his home Salisbury Country Club links. ¶ Red-headed Donald...
Captain Thomas Jefferson Davis is no kin of President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis...
Last week Topeka was in the midst of another pet controversy-this time over cats. Judge William Amos Smith, onetime Kansas attorney general and Supreme Court justice, has three children, seven cats. The children are all right with his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Archie Smith (no kin), but she objects decidedly to the cats. Protesting their "terrific odor," she lately went to the city commissioners. They decided to meet this issue squarely. In a stormy session they passed an ordinance forbidding Topekans to harbor more than five cats within 250 ft. of a dwelling. Fine for infraction...
...From volcano-cursed Nicaragua to volcano-cursed Guatemala President Roosevelt last week shifted Minister Matthew Elting Hanna (no kin to the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna) to succeed Mr. Whitehouse. Graduate of West Point, Mr. Hanna turned career diplomat in 1917. From Managua's 1931 earthquake Minister Hanna emerged a local hero...