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...before nightfall Denver discovered that Jaedke had done Veteran Mitchell a good turn. The Colorado State Flower Growers' Association contributed $800 to help Mitchell build his apartments. A friend added $325. By week's end citizens had sent $1,100 more to the Rocky Mountain News to be forwarded to him, and the fund was still growing...
...just barked at by his superiors or kept cooling his heels in the dirty waiting room filled with dated copies of the Daily Express and France Libre. But if he was not on time, he was barked at louder: "Handsome Mrs. Pollock would glower at me from behind her flower-and-chocolate-laden desk, and her pneumatic Jane, the American secretary in uniform, would pretend to be engrossed in her typing, so that she could spare no sympathy." A major warned him: "Please be careful, my friend. You must not give a false impression of slackness you know...
...Theatre Inc.) still holds up, after 33 years, as one of Shaw's most actable and entertaining plays. One reason may be that it contains almost nothing to weigh it down. It is Shaw on a holiday. His account of how a phonetics expert transforms a Cockney flower girl into the likes of a duchess is first & foremost good fun. It is a highly satirical, wryly Shavian fairy tale-but a fairy tale for all that...
From Russia, where censorship is still in flower, came the usual rebuttal. What set N. Baltisky talking (in New Times) was "fabricated . . . so-called news" that the A.P. was sending from Poland...
...Newfoundlanders have lived simply, in such villages as Heart's Content and Heart's Delight, Seldom Come By and Come By Chance. They dotted their 6,000 miles of deeply indented coastline and the spruce and fir-studded hinterland with modest frame houses, often surrounded by little flower and vegetable gardens. Most made their living by codfishing; others went down into the submarine depths of Bell Island to mine iron ore. Still others cut pulpwood for the paper mills at modern Grand Falls and Corner Brook...