CONGRESS SPELLING BEE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 10 January 1944, Page 3

CONGRESS SPELLING BEE

Congresswomen carried off the hon- j curs in an old-fashioned spelling bee i conducted by Speaker Sam Rayburn. Rep Albert Gore <Dj, of Tennessee, was bumped off on “satellite.” and so was Red Noah M. Mason, of Illinois, before Rep Clare Luce Boothe, of Connecticut, first of the women to fall, slipped on “supersede.” The authorplaywright insisted there was a “c” in it, and the men put 2 “t’s” in satellite. ' Rep Mike Mansfield. of Montana, missed “acquiesce” (leaving out the “c”), and Rep Francis Case, of South j Dakota, muffed “colossal,” putting 2 I “t’s” in the middle. Reps Jessie Sum- ! ner, of Illinois, and Margaret Smith, of j Maine, breezed through such tough ones as “ichthyology,” and then both j fell down at “Albuquerque.” They' got the idea it was “Alber —.” Ren Frances Bolton, of Ohio, -spelled “postscript” ; without an “s.” The final count was 9 mistakes for I the men and 8 for the women.— (“New j York Times.”)