THE CONGRESS: Benedict's Buffoonery

To the dismay of his House colleagues and the delight of the Press, Washington's eccentric Representative Marion Anthony Zioncheck last week continued his Zioncheckered career by:

¶Obtaining a District of Columbia license to marry Public Works Administration Typist Rubye Louise Nix, only to find it useless because the minister he named to perform the ceremony had not lived in Washington for two years.

¶Roaring away to Annapolis, Md., where he and pretty Miss Nix were wed only after Representative Zioncheck succeeded in borrowing $2 for another license from an obliging clerk.

¶ Leading...

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