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...Lake George. Chester Arthur knew his way to the salmon pools of New Brunswick. Grover Cleveland, an authority on black bass, wrote one of the most delightful of angling books [Fishing and Hunting Sketches], and perfectly phrased the ultimate test of a true sportsman, "He draweth not his flask in secret...
MORE prospectors are prowling California looking for quicksilver than at any time since World War II. The standard 76-lb. flask still brings $189-almost 2½ times the pre-Korean price. Reason: Spain, Italy and Yugoslavia, the major sources of U.S. mercury supply, keep prices at scarcity levels...
...Received Greece's Economic Coordination Minister Spyros Markezinis, who brought to the White House 1) a gold medal designating the President an honorary citizen of Athens, 2) a 2,400-year-old bronze helmet, 3) an 8,000-year-old ceramic flask, 4) a necklace, made of ancient Greek coins, for Mamie. ¶ Accepted the resignation of New York Investment Banker William Henry Draper Jr., 58, as U.S. Special Representative in Europe. Wrote Draper: "[You have given promise] that under your leadership the world will be spared the horrors of a third world war." Replied the President...
...turned out. The parade was fine: there was a reasonable facsimile of George Washington, a flock of sheep in the Future Fanners of America entry, and a church window made of colored paper. The winning float was a 12-ft., papier-mache Statue of Liberty with a flask of plasma in her right hand and a sheaf of bonds under her left arm. One student marcher confessed that his crim son Cossack coat was really a girl's bed jacket, and one of his medals was a high-school prize for oratory...
Died. Frederick Lawrence Green, 51, English novelist (A Flask for the Journey, The Magician) best known for his account of back-alley Irish nationalism in Odd Man Out (which became a hit movie); in Bristol, England...