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...Balboa docks, the Nevadan took aboard a launchful of officials headed by Canal Zone Acting Governor Herbert D. Vogel. After climbing over a deck cargo of lumber to get to the captain's cabin, the governor turned over a certificate stating that the Nevadan was the 150,000th major ship (more than 300 net tons) to go through the Panama Canal since it was opened for business 37 years...
Focal points for travel this summer will be the national festival in Britain and Paris's celebration of her 2,000th birthday...
Totty is the answer to a Nieman Fellow's prayer. She knows where to find an apartment, how to corral baby-sitters, locations of good restaurants, and answers to the other 11,999 questions she gets the first day. And she has a small fee with the 12,000th answer--to coerce an outgoing newsman into putting a nickel into her parking meter...
Bothered by lack of funds and the fear of a "shabby, stingy bimillenary," Novelist Jules (Men of Good Will) Romains resigned his job as head of the planning committee to celebrate Paris' 2,000th anniversary next year...
...Next week I will receive my 1,000th copy of TIME. I have sworn 999 times never to read TIME again. But each time it appears in the mail box I get nosey to know what's going on in Asia, who the best ten Senators are, etc. As usual next month we'll subscribe again. If you ever stop piquing me, I'll know I'm washed...