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Flashes of Life
By the Associated Press
New York "Nudist camps are stupid and idiotic," cried the barrel-chested Anthony Sclafani. "Their contention is that we came into the world without anything on. But in those days we didn't know any better.' Sclafani knows better. He wore shorts-and only shorts-for his jaunt past New York's shivering churchgoers in yesterday' subfreezing wind.
Minneapolis-A 5-pound pickerel jumped out of a hole in the ice on Coon Lake and bit Alvin Mickelson on the nose. Two companions vouch for the story while Mickelson is exhibiting the fish and a scratched proboscis as proof. Mickelson says he will get his revenge-biting into the fish.
Uniontown, Pa. Of what use can locomotive and a flat car be to bank receiver? Harry A. Cotton, counsel for the receivers of the Monongahela National Bank of Brownsville, got judgment against a* small railroad line and the tangible assets proved to be the engine and car. "Guess about all can do is invite some of my friends for a ride," was Cotton's comment. on the rails has ended in voluntary retirement for 79-year-old Daniel Patrick Hurley, oldest conductor on the Cotton Belt lines. Kirby M. Post. vicepresident and general manager, said the road had never been called on to pay a claim as a result of any occurence on a train in Hurley's charge during the 52 years he served as conductor.
Baltimore Even though it is fringed with icicles, Mrs. Charles Meyer Schriver thinks her swimming pool is "too good to miss." The daughter-in-law of George M. Shriver, first vicepresident of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, takes daily plunge and often runs back to the house with 0 frozen suit and cap.