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This week a minor recording outfit, West Coast Recordings, released four Lu Watters records, planned to turn out 32 more. They included classics like Canal Street Blues, Creole Belles and Chattanooga Stomp, and originals like Turk Murphy's Trombone Rag and Lu's Antigua Blues, named after the ship on which Lu did Navy duty. Watters' boys have an impressive library of 200 oldtime tunes-all "in their heads...
...believing that the way to study a plant is to go back to its place of origin, they were in Guatemala recently putting the final touches to a namey venture called the Iowa State College Guatemala Tropical Research Center-a corn study station in the beautiful ghost town of Antigua. 60 miles from Guatemala City...
Early next summer a double-handful of Iowa State graduate students and undergraduate specialists will move into a spacious colonial mansion in Antigua. The Guatemalans have offered free use of the necessary land. If the planned cross-breeding experiments work out, both Iowa and Guatemala may soon have better, if not bigger corn...
...Bermuda and all other islands in the West Indies now owned by European nations (the Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, Curaçao, Guadeloupe...
...Bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda, Trinidad, British Guiana, the Bahamas, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Antigua were released to the U.S. in 1940, technically in return for 50 overage destroyers. Interpreted literally, the leases give the U.S. possession but not sovereignty for 99 years. British sentiments apply equally to U.S. war installations in the Middle East, India, the Pacific, Africa...