Monday, Oct. 25, 1937
Gourmet
At Harvard University, Freshman David ("Kentucky") Mitchell topped off his dinner with 18 successive helpings of ice cream, (twelve strawberry, six vanilla), next morning went out and won a crosscountry running trial. Said he: "It was nothing. I just kept on eating." Former record at the Harvard Union (clubhouse) was eleven ice creams.
Birthday
In Buffalo. N. Y., Big Frank, elephant at the city zoo, was given a birthday party: with one swing of his trunk he engulfed a frosted birthday cake, packed it down with 50 Ibs. of hay. carrots, beets, as a special postprandial treat was permitted to chew
a plug of tobacco.
Deal
In Los Angeles, members of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union at the Beverly Knitting Mill went on strike for higher wages. Like several disgusted employers before him Owner L. G. Griffith explained: "All right. I'm through. You run it." Three strikers took him up. formed a new $25.000 corporation, hired onetime Owner Griffith as sales manager, signed a bargaining agreement with the union, reopened for work.
Divorce
In Paris, 44 years ago, Baker Paul Cimetiere sued for divorce, was refused on the grounds of insufficient brutality. Twice afterward he sued with the same result. Meantime, he and Mrne Leonie Veynes had four children. When the fiancee of one of his grandchildren threatened to break her engagement unless her future grandfather was regularized. Grandfather Cimetiere, now 77, sued again, again lost.
Killer
In Mont Laurier, Quebec. Lumberman Henri Chagnon became so annoyed when a fractured leg failed to heal that he stumped in on crutches to see his physician. Dr. Gustave Roy. Said Henri Chagnon drawing an ancient revolver: "Make your act of contrition. I am going to kill you." He pulled the trigger, his gun failed to go off, he went to jail.
Swap
In Belgrade. Yugoslavia, Adyar Atchiovritch was sent to jail for four and a half years. Reason: he believed his wife was unfaithful, traded her to a soldier for a donkey.
Funeral
In Brooklyn, relatives gathered from Connecticut and Maryland to mourn the death of Mrs. Maria Maggio, 94. The coffin arrived, was banked . with flowers, finally opened. "Hey!" shouted Grandson Peter Lamarco. "that's not Grandma." Hospital apologized, admitted that Mrs. Maggio was still alive, that the corpse was that of Mrs. Maria Maglio.
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