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...Dublin, N.H., the 156th annual edition of the Old Farmer's Almanac predicted that 1948 would be a year of bitter winter, fleeting summer, sun spots and crop failures...
Digging up material for a New Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change...
...point of fact, given in complete impartiality, is essential to an appreciation of the pre-game standing of the two teams. The World Almanac of 147, in giving the student attendance of United States Colleges, lists in part; "Harvard 4.028: Western Maryland 575." There is perhaps no more eloquent evaluation of the odds which as underdogs, the visitors must overcome...
They turn to the Enterprise with the same escapist hunger that makes thousands of city-pent slickers buy the Old Farmer's Almanac. They delight in the fillers ("This line fills this column"; "What's good for bee stings?") and the editorials, like the recent one that reminded the governor that "the Androscoggin River stinks again. . . . We have not heard from Governor Hildreth in some time. Does anybody know whatever became...
John Gunther, the most successful living practitioner of his kind of journalism (a mixture of Burton Holmes, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell and the World Almanac) is highly readable. His writing is brisk and breezy. It is also glib, superficial, exaggerated, full of impressions passing as insights and facts palmed off as truths. This is probably the best of his books, certainly the best since Inside Europe, which had some excellent eyewitness reporting of Austria in the turbulent days of Dollfuss...