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"Unfair"

"It is unfair for our flyers to get all the glory while those poor Frenchmen [Captains Nungesser & Coli] are dead," said Joseph Lewis, 39, Negro, as he stood poised on a window sill of his fifth-floor apartment in Manhattan. Then he jumped, died on the pavement below. Mr. Lewis' sister said that he had been melancholy for several weeks.

The inhabitants of Kenton, Ohio,* were so befuddled last week that they would not have been surprised to find rabbits in their beds or eggs in their shoes. For three days, their town was a hive of deft-fingered, beady-eyed men who stopped at nothing. But Kentonites were proud, for they were being entertained by 500 members of the International Brotherhood of Magicians--Harry Blackstone, Mysterious Smith, T. Nelson Downs (King of Koins), Rajah Raboid, the Hudspeths and many another. Important doings:

Rajah Raboid, blindfolded with eleven thick bandages, drove an automobile at high speed through Kenton's curious traffic.

Fred Kurd opened his mouth and, with his teeth, grabbed a marked bullet out of the air. The bullet had been fired from an ancient horse pistol.

Mysterious Smith apparently had no difficulty in getting out of a straightjacket inside of a roped coffin.

In convention assembled, the magicians adopted a resolution to stop the exposing of each other's tricks.

W. W. Durbin, businessman and Democratic politician of Kenton, who was host, was re-elected President of the Brotherhood.

Howard Thurston, even though absent, was chosen as one of the vice presidents.

Charivari

Villagers of Manuden, England, gathered on the lawn of the vicarage of the Rev. Harry B. Grin-die, 70, on his wedding night. They beat tin pans, iron kettles, garbage cans, etc. They honked horns. In short, they gave Vicar Grindle an old-fashioned "tin kettling"--to remind him that they thought he had violated an unwritten jaw.

Vicar Grindle had married the 30-year-old nurse who tended his first wife on her deathbed. The wedding took place five weeks after the death. Said the new Mrs. Grindle: "By remarrying, the vicar has paid the best compliment to the memory of his [first] wife. I nursed her and know her chief concern was how Harry would get on without assistance. . . ."

Knothole

What percentage of mankind will jab a hatpin, ice pick or nail file through a knothole or key hole when they have reason to suspect that a human eye is pressed against the exterior of such an orifice ?

Some critics say 10%; others go as high as 75%. But last week one Ray Doll, Chicago junk dealer, went so far as to fire a shotgun when he saw an eye peeking and peering at him through a knothole in his garage. The shotgun shell sped straight, blew out the brains of one Robert Hailey, 15, Negro, who meant no harm.

Junkman Doll was arrested, charged with murder.

--Not to be confused with Kenyon, Ohio, home of Kenyon College which produced U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes; nor with Canton, Ohio, home of U. S. President William McKinley.

TIME, June SO, 1927