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Newspaper
Grafton Sentinel
Location
Grafton, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1955
Page
5
A sharp writer recalls a garrulous old colleague and shares Felish Cobb’s humorous self insult. The piece highlights Eu genie Clark's Lady with a Spears book noting bizarre fish such as double-eyed forms, a sub-inch adult, poison-squirting species, the razorfish and pipefish with male gestation, all copyrighted 1955 Bennett Cerf.
A shuffled clipping highlights the Library of Congress holdings at 10 155 000 volumes while quips recall Arica Chile rainfall of about one eighth inch yearly. The piece mocks town spellings and cites a US Weather Bureau spokesman on a warming trend as summer nears. It also notes the Gaekwad of Baroda spending 10 million in six weeks and a Detroit firefighter earning Mr Junior America 1965.
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