Miscellany, Sep. 19, 1949

Wrong Number. In Los Angeles, Clarence D. Lang, suing for annulment, charged that his wife had deceived him by allowing him to go on thinking that he was her fifth husband when in reality he was her seventh.

Power of the Word. In Denver, 63-year-old Nathan Mullin, stopped by two gunmen on his way home from church, routed them by slapping one of them across the face with his Bible.

Any Questions? In Knoxville, Tenn., John O. Blair got a drunken-driving charge dismissed after he stoutly insisted that he was not drunk, but merely...

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