Show WRITING UP A WEDDING most newspaper men shrink from the task of writing up a wedding and prefer to pass that responsible duty to the female society editor yet there are exceptions occasionally an editor is found who can paint a word picture of nuptial events that any lady reporter might envy we just discovered one man who appears to be hiding his great talents in an obscure kansas town while he ought to be holding down a great city job here is a sample of his literary ability which proves our point it was a wonderful wedding the girl was as sweet as any girl who ever lived but modern As she walked up the aisle on her fathers arm her aps lightly tilted at the corners with a happy smile she was a picture of modest beauty her filmy wedding gown and gossamer veil floated around her fair blond head like a halo she was as nearly an angel as girls get to be in this world at the altar as she passed from her father the man she always loved to the other man to whom she would devote the rest of her life her dainty slipper touched a potted lily resting on the floor and turned it over smiling again she turned to the dear old pastor waiting at tha chancel and said that was a hell of a place to put a lily strangely enough the star of the red bird team was a martin general butlers retirement was not exactly due to his retiring disposition if they cut appropriations to the bone the bureaucrats will fight for the bone possibly it would also be ethical to say a lie for a lie and a truth for a truth the effects of the prone pressure method depend on whether it is used by life savers or motorists the farm board appears to have succeeded in relieving the farmei of what little he had before all whistlers may not be marons morons as prof shaw declares but most whistling sounds as if they were looks as if neither republicans nor democrats want the responsibility for what the next congress may do the large number of homicides would be less alarming if they would only kill more of the right people when and herndon threw away their landing gear the chances were that they would never need it anyway we read that chemicals may be used to check insanity well some synthetic chemical compounds have no doubt served to give it a start pathfinder refers to a well known radio crooner as a medieval romantic born five centuries too late for beheading mores the pity there is an argument as to whether the gnp under the arctic ice was a success the fact that the nautilus got back at all convinces us that it an explorer reports finding a south american anbe among whom husbands speak one language and wives another some will consider this an ideal arrangement ran gement A cook is known by his knife says an ancient proverb written before the can opener was invented I 1 another weakness of our distribution trib ution system is seen in the fact that with an area of more than three million square miles in this country its hard to find a place to park modem reporters make identification complete by parenthetical explanations such as james H jimmy james J jimmy walker and james E jim watson discussing business etiquette a trade magazine tells salesmen that when leaving a busy executive they should not expect him to escort them to the door that we suppose is the head bouncers job an undertaker of dequeen ark has been arrested and charged with stealing a tombstone from the grave of a world war soldier apparently conscience stricken be cause he had used up a county shovel while digging a ditch in warsaw ind 43 years ago john doe of los angeles sent 1 to the sheriff of kosciusko Kosc lusko county |