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...office to plunk down her $50, and has scarcely been heard from since. There is Harry Diehl, a Democrat, who took a leave of absence from his job as a clerk in a Houston supermarket and filed as "Harry Republican Diehl." There is a woman named Jonnie Mae Eckman, pastor of the House of Prayer in Brenham ("I do declare, now catch your breath, that I am the Christ prophesied of to come"); and one Delbert E. Grandstaff, whose chief distinction is that he is the father of Kathy Grant, in private life Mrs. Bing Crosby...
Selby then told his problems to Patra Mae Bounds, who worked at his favorite massage parlor, and she put him in touch with a Negro fortuneteller named Maggie Morgan. Wax-wigged Maggie Morgan got a promise of $1,500 from Selby and a key to his house, arranged for an acquaintance of hers to work in the Selby home as a maid. One day Maggie went to his house to study the layout and plan the murder, found Wilma Selby at home, coolly sat down at the piano to play and sing a hymn, Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross...
...white grocer and druggist cut off his credit. Two young couples-the John Jamersons and the William Thorns-were also ordered out of their houses; months later, the houses are still vacant. Jobie Mosby, 38, lost his $4-a-day job as a tractor driver. His wife, Fannie Mae, 29, a $2.50-a-day ironing woman, was fired. Neither has found jobs since-and they have eleven children to support. John McFerren, 35, could buy neither groceries nor gasoline for his small country store and filling station. Allen Yancy Jr., 25, a chemistry and mathematics teacher, was dismissed...
Having a Ball. In Baltimore, after being clipped for the second time by foul balls during a Pony League baseball game, Mrs. Lilly Mae Butler refused to hand over the horsehide, was fined $10 for disorderly conduct...
...wives, which further confused the week-end-on-Venus decor of Hollywood's Moulin Rouge. Costume dress was optional, but most of the folks came in their work clothes-Gary Cooper in Stetson and Levi's, Barbara Rush in a remake of one of Mae West's old negligees...