WEATHER: Milkman of the Skies

The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America, Inc. last week broke off its calculated yearning for the misty past to combat what seemed like an unbearably rainy future. Fearful that a Denver "carnival of harmony" would get washed out, the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A. went into district court and asked that Dr. Irving P. ("The Rainmaker") Krick be forced to turn off his baleful ring of cloud-seeding machines surrounding the city.

The singers withdrew the suit when Krick, an affable and convincing talker, assured them that it probably...

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