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Although I told you recently that TIME'S circulation office was not equipped to handle barter transactions. Dave Ballard. circulation manager for TIME-LIFE International, has just made an exception to the rule, with no questions asked. Subscriber Claude Winter wrote him from British Guiana: "You'll find enclosed ... a half-carat diamond ... to extend my subscription to TIME as far as it will go ... I hope you'll grant this request. I'm working in the hinterland of this country, with an interest in diamond mining, and I'm situated far from most civilized...
...Ballard had the uncut stone weighed. It tipped the scales at 41 points, just short of half a carat. Dealers appraised the stone at $10, so Ballard swapped it even for a one-year renewal subscription to TIME'S Latin American edition (value: $12.50). Said Ballard: "It wasn't so much the principle as the irresistible appeal...
...documents in his Book-of-the-Month Club selection, Lincoln and His Generals. The thesis is not quite as fresh as it must have seemed to the B-o-M judges, nor as urgent as Professor Williams' somewhat hortatory account makes it sound. British Brigadier General Colin R. Ballard spelled it all out a quarter-century' ago in his witty and clear-eyed Military Genius of Abraham Lincoln (just re-issued by World; $5). What Scholar Williams has done, with fresher materials at his disposal, is to chink in the gaps, make the story more watertight. In Lincoln...
...David W. Ballard "Circulation Manager...
...only scoring threat for the Crimson after Smith fouled out, dumped in ten points in the second half but Boyages' layup and foul shot put Dartmouth ahead to stay at 16 minutes, 58 to 57. DARTMOUTH (65) G F P Hedberg, f 0 4 4 Biggs 0 0 0 Ballard, f 1 4 6 Boyages 3 8 14 Gieg, c 8 4 20 Calhoun, g 1 3 5 O'Neill 2 5 9 Pierce, g 0 2 2 Sherman 2 1 5 Totals 17 31 65 HARVARD (61) G F P Stevenson, f 0 0 0 Lionette...