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Oldfashioned, mebbe, but Troy, Ohio, Feed Mill Owner Russell Stacy Altman, 76, just didn't trust banks completely. Now 10-gal. milk cans buried near the mill, that's a different thing. So last month, in delirium on his deathbed at Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, Altman told his son and daughter about the milk cans. They thought it was a little strange, but nevertheless, after a decent interval, they decided to dig around a little. By the end of last week they had unearthed three of them, stuffed with...
...expert, Ichthyologist Herbert Axelrod, puts the proper aquarium proportion at two gallons of salt water to an inch of fish-a limit of five 2-in. fish in a 20-gal. tank. Sea horses-such improbable creatures that many people think them mythical-are less active and need less tank space; so slow are they, in fact, that they must be segregated from most other fish, or they will starve to death...
...case you've forgotten, Miss Littlewood is the gal who founded London's Theatre Workshop, where she introduced the works of playwrights like Brendan Behan and shelagh Delaney, trained many performers, and generally ruled over the most vigorous theatrical institution in the city until she suddenly gave it up two years...
Whatever happened to Chopsticks'? In Tokyo, Japanese jazzmen fell in line to jam with Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, 49, packing them in on a five-week barnstorm tour of Japan. His regular cats augmented with local talent-including a belting new gal vocalist, Mayumi Kuroda, 21-Hamp gave the customers "integrated music" stomped out by an "Asiatic Harlem" band. "The more I travel," says he, "the more I'm convinced that jazz isn't native to the States. These boys can read the flyspecks off wallpaper...
...biggest, consists of just six lines, which do not even tell what products the company handles. The huge Solvay chemicals trust refuses to give the exact number of its plants, and Munich's Löwenbräu holds back from publishing its annual output (24 million gal.). Others delay what figures they do publish: Switzerland's Frisia oil company has just got around to publishing its 1961 report-showing a loss that amounts to nearly half its share capital...