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Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...
Most Sears, Roebuck & Co. stores are plain, functional buildings with big show windows and large, eye-hitting signs. But last week the mail-order chain opened a new store that was a sport; it had only a few small windows and it looked like a citadel in Spain. Its single sign was restrained and inconspicuous...
Every year some New England college eleven gets touted as a tower in national football and local sports writers start turning the wheels of "Bowl Fever." But just as regularly, some average squad from the West or South invades this citadel of Yankee gridiron prowess and promptly the walls come tumbling down...
...ruins of an old Greek drugstore had urns marked "purgative" and "wine "wine sweetened sweetened with honey." A fragment of pottery (which the Greeks used as scratch paper) bore the curt instruction: "Leave the saw under the threshold." The diggers have already figured out how the Acropolis (citadel) of Athens looked at various periods of history, and have even built models (see cut}. But there is still much work to be done in and under the Agora. The diggers think that they have chores to keep them busy for the next 16 years. By then they hope to tell...
...loved or hated because it is a citadel of political liberty . . . but according as it seems to be a going concern, measured by its ability and willingness to contribute from its own comfortable fat to strengthen Europe's thin and shivering frame...