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...blue-eyed Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford, 60, lives in a ten-room Spanish mansion, No. 4440 Braeburn Road. San Diego, Calif. Last week he deeded No. 4440 Braeburn Road, an adjacent two-car garage and a pair of automobiles to King David, Gedeon, Barak, Samson. Jephthae, Samuel and sundry other mighties of ancient Palestine. Positive is he that they are shortly to reappear on earth. Said he: "I have purposely landscaped the place with palm and olive trees so these princes of the universe will feel at home when they come to offer man the chance to become perfect...
...quail that live on the Old Hancock Place near Grand Junction, Tenn. were "fixin','' as southerners say, to pair off, and a pair of quail is harder for a dog to smell than a bevy. Also, it rained hard, washing the game smells out of the air. The Setter Katie Dee ran a great three hours in the wet, but then the judges voted a postponement and the National Championship Bird Dog Trials were not finished until last week...
...racket has appeared at Harvard, and almost simultaneous with its arrival, a means of combatting it has been devised. A pair of ingenious go-getting bootleggers recently hit upon a novel means of increasing their effectiveness as salesmen of illicit spirits. They had tried arguments supporting the authenticity of their liquors; they had worn stiff collars, shined their shoes, brushed their hair, and worn pleasant smiles on their unrefined countenances...
...went well for several weeks until the pair went to call on a gentleman from the West, who possessed a brace of 45's. He found that with their leather holsters and cartridge belt, the "shooting irons" lent a decorative, masculine, frontier touch to the effeteness of his Cambridge quarters. He had heard about the unique sales arguments of the two vendors of booze, and when the pair arrived in his room one evening, he had an idea of how to bolster his sales resistance...
Churched in so simple a fashion, the pair had ostensibly become one flesh. Not until one alert newsgatherer noticed that no license had been used during the ceremony was it discovered that Mr. & Mrs. Clarke had taken the precaution of being married at the municipal building chapel the morning before the Bahai wedding. Subsequent investigation proved that the judicious civil ceremony was quite in keeping with the gentle faith of Bahai, one of whose principal tenets is tolerance of established custom...