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Anxious to become a world seaport, Bainbridge, Ga. (pop. 7,562) enjoys two advantages: 1) it straddles the Flint River, 105 miles from the Gulf of Mexico; 2) it is the home town of Georgia's frog-voiced Governor S. (for Samuel) Marvin Griffin. Last week a state senate investigating committee complained that Bainbridge's home-town boy has been doing too much in trying to overcome nature's oversights. The Griffin administration has spent half a million dollars for a 400-ft. pier, a transit shed and sulphur unloading facilities. And along with brother Cheney Griffin...
...with 20 drawers), which had been used by General John J. Pershing in World War I and by General George Marshall in World War II. Near by was William Tecumseh Sherman's ornate library table, and on it a model of the Oozlefinch bird, a frog-eyed, missile-toting creature, the insigne of Army missilemen at Fort Bliss, Texas. Also on the Sherman table were the three telephones whose rings, over the coming months, could only have deep meaning for Neil McElroy; the shrilling command phone over which word might come of war (its number is classified), the White...
...shore night breeze had not yet risen. The harbor was as smooth as a looking-glass and the stars shone double in the sky and on the water. The silence was only broken by the whistle of the lizards or the cry of some far-off marsh frog. The air was warmer than we ever feel in the depth of an English summer, yet pure and delicious and charged with the perfume of a thousand flowers...
...Since the Hungarian revolt, Moscow seems so unsure of how to handle the ferment in its Eastern European empire that it has publicly conceded ex-Foe Tito a hand in the Balkans. But how much of a hand? Proposing a grouping in which Tito would obviously be the biggest frog was calculated to make Tito swell up. But proposing one that did not stand much chance was to gratify his ego without running the intolerable risk of having him, in fact, set up a rival power center to Moscow...
Wide & Weird. The world of electronic journalism that Murrow bestrides runs a course far wider than the one from the tabloids to the Times and weirder than anything in between. It echoes with the weepy singsong of Gabriel Heatter, still broadcasting after 32 years, the now-stilled, intelligent frog croak of Elmer Davis, the cocksureness of Fulton Lewis Jr., the literate wit of Eric Sevareid, the pear-shaped tones of Lowell Thomas. Gone now from radio is Winchell's clattering telegraph key and breathless bleat: too seldom heard is aging (79) H. V. Kaltenborn's clipped assurance...