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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1940
Page
11
Morley notes Philadelphia's quirks in a syndicated column quoted by an Amarillo paper. He recalls local legends, jokes about Ben Franklin and the city’s culture while riffing on regional perspectives and a New York departure.
In Lubbock on a Leap Year night, nineteen representative bachelors plan a humorous coming out party. The Avalanche-Journal ran a staged group photo last Sunday, promising a Cupid target gag for 1940. The men, told their pictures would be used later, learned of the prank only when the issue appeared.
A collection of trivia and light notes opens with medical facts on temperature pulse and cervical meaning, then shifts to party planning as bachelors prepare a Lil Abner coming out event. Philadelphia novelist Christopher Morley criticizes city time sense during a luncheon talk.
The scene shows Doris reaching for a food pack when a man leaps up to confront her, shouting not that pack as he moves aggressively toward her. The fragment hints at a confrontation and danger in a continuing story.
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