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Animated Decoy. A battery-powered plastic duck that simulates feeding movements of a mallard is being marketed by Riley Decoy Corp., Eugene, Ore. Later this year the firm will also offer hunters an animated mallard hen. Price: $17.95, with battery...
Bell Boy. In Stubbs Bay, Minn., when exasperated residents demanded to know why he drove through the town in an ancient hearse and clanged a locomotive bell each day at 6 a.m., noon, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., Farm Caretaker Tom Riley, 73, explained: "A fellow ought to have some fun before he dies...
...Home. In Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia, after confessing to the burglary of a jewelry store, Raymond Riley Cox, 24, was admitted to bail by the police court when he explained that his own house had been robbed in his absence and he wanted to "return to see what had been stolen...
...match of the tournament at Sandwich, England. England's Mrs. Roy Smith laid a 150-yd. iron shot on the 36th green, easily sank her second putt to defeat America's Polly Riley, one up, as Britain's determined band of women amateur golfers won the Curtis Cup for the second time in nine tries from their American cousins. The score...
Education: High school in Red Wing, Minn. (pop. 10,645); planned to study law, but became interested in the Army when he tagged along with his father to Fort Riley, Kans. on church business; graduated 139th (weak in science and mathematics) in the 1930 class at West Point; went off to flight training in the Army Air Corps...