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Tabby Manna

When a cat catches a mouse, that is not news. But if a mouse should tree a cat, editors would smite their thighs.

Newsgatherers who last week rushed to Bakersfield, Calif., and vicinity, caused countrywide journalistic thigh-smiting. They put

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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