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...Detroit-area phenomenon-the playing of tunes on pushbutton telephones-spread the fad across the nation and resulted in the publication by the Los Angeles firm, Price/Stern/Sloan, of The Pushbutton Telephone Songbook, which gives instructions for calling friends and playing for them such pushbutton tunes as Flow Gently, Sweet Afton and Strangers in the Night...
...JANE AFTON BARRY, '71 Regis College Weston, Mass...
...years of teaching and 27 books (Essays on Nationalism, Nationalism: A Religion) to warning of the dangers of the all-powerful modern state, writing on the eve of World War II that "nationality, the national state and national patriotism are the source of intolerance, militarism and war": in Afton...
DAVID W. MANDYCK Afton...
Konrad Adenauer, in his own tongue, has issued the following statement: "Es freut mich sehr Ihnen zum Geburtstag Glueck zu wuenschen," adding, "Ninety is much too young to quit." His Majesty King Gustav Adolf VI, providing for the time lag, writes "God morgon! God afton! God natt! Ingen orsak." And Carl Sandburg, who is only eighty-five, comments that "You have completed your Prairie Years. On to the War Years...