MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Aug. 15, 1949

¶The children of John W. Hopper, onetime mayor of Neptune City, N.J., "and their descendants down through the ages to come" received the following bequest last week when his will was read: ". . . the knowledge that I, their father and grandfather, had no share, not even once, in the installation or perpetuation of the Roosevelt (F.D.) dynasty . . ." Hopper's will added firmly: "With this knowledge they may always hold up their heads in pride."

¶Nudists of the American Sunbathing Association worked out a neat solution to the problem of a Peeping Tom who was eyeing their convention...

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