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...mean that a table is necessary for the kolo. As a matter of fact it is a hindrance in most cases. My mother has danced the kolo off and on for over 30 years and this idea of the table is something entirely new to her. Here in Flint, in Detroit and in Cleveland I've taken part in dancing the kolo together with hundreds of other Jugoslavs but never have we run around the table in one direction and in the other...
...MICHAEL W. EVANOFF Flint, Mich...
...Andrew Jackson, Nashville) last year earned $62,000 against $251,000 in 1929. A drop to $84,000 from $120,000 was shown last year by big United Hotels Co. of America which operates 20 hotels (the Clifton and the Niagara. Niagara Falls; the King Edward, Toronto; the Durant, Flint, Mich.; the Roosevelt, Manhattan; the Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia; the President, Kansas City, Mo.; El Conquistador, Tucson, Ariz.). Big hotels in receivership include the Hotel White, the Fifth Avenue, the Allerton Houses, Manhattan. Bonds in the Stevens. Chicago, biggest U. S. hotel, last week sold at 25? on $1.* Pierre...
...home of Emil Szalay, sausage maker of Flint, Mich., hangs a framed certificate testifying that Emil Szalay's father served two years in the Hungarian army after rebellious Hungary had been subdued by Austria with the help of Nicholas I of Russia, in 1849. As the elder Szalay had been a rebel, had served after his capture only to evade imprisonment, that diploma remained his "shame." To his sons he used to say, pointing to the document, "You must do something good for the Hungarian people to wipe out my disgrace...
...take a glass of water and dash it high into the air, the liquid will come down in the form of ringing crystals of ice. Spittle will freeze before reaching the ground. . . . Live wood becomes petrified, and when one chops it, sparks fly as if from flint. . . . Even rum would freeze in my traveling flask. Only pure alcohol withstood the cold...