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...Tropical Fish advertising for the Sun and now do so for the World-Telegram and the Sun ... I hope you will agree that both Tropical Fish and Pets are not only a popular national hobby (or habit if you must), but . . . will in no way harm the newspapers brave enough to carry these features...
...achieve a touch of poetry. Discussing the London Bridge area, Baedeker relates: "In one of the houses dwelt Sir John Hewittf Lord Mayor in the time of Queen Elizabeth, whose daughter, according to the romantic story, fell into the river and was rescued by Edward Osborne, his apprentice. The brave and fortunate youth afterward married the young lady and founded the family of the present Duke of Leeds...
Ever since the 17th Century, Britons have drunk a sherry called "Bristol Milk." Samuel Pepys wrote in its praise. The entry in his diary of June 13, 1668 reads: ". . . and did give us good entertainment of strawberries, a whole venison-pasty, cold, and plenty of brave wine, and above all, Bristol milk...
...center of riches and influence. They gave its streets such proud names as Washington and Maryland and they called the village America. In the 1820s it grew fast. Then shifting sands moved the river channel and its commerce away, and a terrible epidemic swept the town. By 1835 its brave dream was dying; in the century after that, America, Ill. almost vanished...
...CRIMSON has managed to stand in defense of the individual: will it be brave enough to continue this policy by favoring as unpopular a position as the one I maintain? Gordon Zimmerman...