Lions Attack: Captain Bob Blinded in Circus Cage
In Phoenix, Captain Bob Bailie of the circus is blindsided in a lion cage when a trapeze rigging slips and the whip backfires, blinding him as eight lions close in. Cage crew intervene, ferried to hospital, and Bailie recalls the moment with stark clarity.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Christy Brothers
Hungary
Japan
Bob Bailie
Joe Foley
Bob
Joe
Captain Bob
O. K
Robert J. Bailie
Flushing
N. Y
Sultan
Ee Sultan
Foley
Earliest Blue Laws and Colonial Connecticut Code
The article notes the 1640 New Haven code later published as 45 laws in 1781 in Peters History of Connecticut by S A Peters. It briefly mentions a Tory clergyman and veers into unrelated geological imagery about the Great Coral Barrier reef off Australia, indicating an incoherent extract.
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New Haven
Connecticut
S.A. Peters
Great Coral Reef
Great Coral Barrier ‘Reef
Australia
Star Dust Star Dust Ever Takes First Plane Trip
A California girl from Saratoga travels to New York by plane for a first time, impressed by an early morning Tennessee view. She films The Charge of the Light Brigade and tops gossip about Mary Pickford, Gable, Garbo, and other film news including Red Barber and Doris Dudley's careers.
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New York
Olivia de Haviland
Saratoga
Calif
Tennessee
Mary Pickford
Miss Pickford
Buddy Rogers
United Artists
Mr. Rogers
Europe
Red Barber
Middle West
Congeniality and Household Discords in Family Life
The piece examines how rival desires for favorite rooms or spaces in a home can spark brief tensions. It argues congeniality draws people together yet can cause friction when individuals seek solitude or different spots, stressing tact, humor, and appreciation of companionship to maintain harmony. Bell Syndicate. WNU Service.
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Bell Syndicate
WNU
Left Handedness Linked To Hand Use Patterns
Dr. H. H. Newman of Chicago university biologist studied 100 students half male half female and found wide variation in left-handedness. He reports left-handers can use their right hand better than right-handers can use their left and that their palm prints resemble their right hand more than the left does in right-handers.
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H. H. Newman
Chicago University
Proverbial Wry Reflections on Human Nature
A compressed quip set on human behavior and public cant. It weighs on honesty, fear, and vanity, noting that those who seek perfection invite deceit. It recalls Barnum on fools and urges restraint, humility, and curiosity over indignation.
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Club Ciaybod
Floyd Gibbons
Virginia Vale
Clark Gable
Alfred Lunt
Lynn Fontanne
Greta Garbo
Tamara Desai
Korda
England
Randolph Scott
Hollywood
Virginia
William Powell
Myrna Loy
Jean Harlow
Spencer Tracy
Suzy
Doris Dudley
Katherine Hepburn
RKO
Ferdinand Gravet
Whill
Lis
Bebe Daniels
Ben Lyon
Englar
Wm. Powell
Barnum
Earth
Dionne Quins
General Foods
Copa
F. Corp
Battle Creek
Mich
Stabourg
John
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