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...other day in Mexico City, I stopped on Avenida Insurgentes (pronounced,my Spanish phrase book says, "Ah-ve-nee-da In-soor-hen-tess") to enquire of a policeman how to proceed to Avenida Hidalgo (pronounced, according to the book, "Ee-dahl-go"). A Mexican gentleman with glasses and a professorial black coat was boarding a streetcar near me, and as he stepped up on to the car, he dropped a folded paper. I opened the paper, thinking it might bear some forwarding address. My ears pricked as I read the contents of the paper. Remembering that in Mexico...
Appalled at these reports, N.E.A.'s retiring President Myrtle Hooper Dahl, a plump Minneapolis schoolmarm, spoke warmly of Britain's example. The British school budget this year is the biggest in its history (?108,000,000), and the government considers education so important that it has recalled 77,000 teachers from the armed forces...
Crown Prince Olav of Norway Clippered from Lisbon to New York under the pseudonym "Oscar Dahl" to spend Christmas with Crown Princess Martha and their three children in Washington...
...billed as "The Blonde Who Spiked the Guns of General Franco's Firing Squad," Miss Rogers commented: "I knew the lid was going to blow off this thing some day. . . . I'm the best damned woman violinist in show business, and I don't need Dahl to sell a violin solo...
...days less than a year after it began, was the longest court trial ever held in Texas. Involving big Humble Oil & Refining Co. and 5,000 little claimants, the trial was as picturesque as an old explorer's diary. It was so complicated that Court Reporter G. L. Dahl filled 327 notebooks with almost 5,000,000 words of testimony, accumulated so many exhibits that he finally took to hauling them to the courtroom by wheelbarrow (see cut). At stake was the ownership of 495 acres of Montgomery County oil land estimated to be worth...