Miscellany, Dec. 4, 1950

Point of View. In St. Louis, Artist Michael Chomyk and the City Art Museum disagreed as to whether his new painting, Conflict, should be hung sidewise or topside up.

Opportunist. In Knoxville,Tenn., Judge Charles G. Kelly dismissed the charge of possessing liquor against Ada Ready when she explained that she never possessed liquor, just drank it as soon as she got it.

Qualifications. In Oklahoma City, county commissioners investigated charges that Constable Samuel Edgar Hutching-son, newly re-elected to his post, was not fit to hold it, found that he was 1) not a resident of the district he policed, 2) doing time in...

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