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...houseparty. Present also are four ex-husbands of an egocentric diva named Ellen Landini. She is the one who gets the bullet. All the husbands are suspected. So are a maid, her husband who liked Landini, a jeune fille whose scarf was around Landini's neck, an old Chinese servant who speaks rudely. A peculiar circumstance : on two cigaret boxes of identical shape but different color, the covers have been inter changed...
...radio Squaw Kobvello could not have been brought to trial until the pack ice melts. Her case, Arcticly outside the realm of ordinary journalism and ordinary jurisprudence, was briefly summarized thus: "It is the custom in the Arctic for an Eskimo in need of a servant to follow his traplines and do other labor, simply to seize any single woman he sees and take her with him into the wilderness. Schurer did just that to her, Kobvello said. He seized her on Herschel Island, forced her to accompany him on a trapping expedition and made her do all the manual...
Burgoo King's time-2:05⅛-was comparatively slow but his victory made a record for his owner, Col. Bradley. In 1921 the Bradley horses Behave Yourself and Black Servant finished first and second in the Kentucky Derby. Two more Bradley horses-Bubbling Over and Bagenbaggage-did the same thing in 1926. No one else has ever owned three Derby winners. When Governor Ruby Laffoon congratulated him last week, Col. Bradley said he was particularly pleased because Burgoo King is a son of Bubbling Over...
...Grandmother Westover, called by everybody Madam, the Westover clan pursues its troubles mixed with fun. Like a small swarm of bees they cluster about Madam, with her silver-headed cane and common sense, as around a queen more fertile than they of purpose and strength. When Tom gets the servant girl in trouble he turns to the grandmother for money to satisfy the girl's father; but grandmother lets him wait. When her simple-minded hired man Curly gets drunk, attacks one of the boys who tease his addled wits, grandmother will not allow the family to shut...
...Angeles, last week, three kidnappers were given ten-years-to-life in prison for abducting a man, his wife and their Japanese servant. Maximum penalty was recommended by the Court...