Monday, Feb. 08, 1937

Kelly

"TIME brings all things."

In Summit, N. J., when Police Sergeant Patrick J. Kelly collapsed at his desk eight men were required to lift his 429-lb. 6-ft.-11 -in. bulk into an ambulance. At the hospital Policeman Kelly, who has frequently expressed a desire to reach 500 lb., was advised against overeating.

5/8 Smith

In Homerville, Ga., 24-year-old Garage Proprietor William 5/8 Smith explained that his father had given him the name 5/8 to avoid mail mixups.

Tennessee

In Sneedville, Term., lanky Hill-Billy Charlie Johns, 22, married blue-eyed third-grader Eunice Winstead, 9. Reverend Walter Lamb said he had performed the ceremony on a lonely road when they accosted him, told him that "if I didn't marry them some one else would." For a wedding present the groom gave the bride a doll. Said Eunice's mother, who had another daughter married at 13 and is herself a grandmother at 33: "I haven't brought up my children to marry what men has got, but to marry for love." Said Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning, upon finding the State powerless to annul the marriage: "It's nothing short of tragedy!"

Judges

In Marseille, France, Jean Guery defended a client so movingly that the judges broke into tears, then sentenced him to three years in jail when they discovered he was not a lawyer.

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