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Sirs: Mention of Robert Southey's The Battle of Blenheim in your geograpnic Background of War brings to mind 141-year-old lines that are becoming all too current. Peterkin's grandpa should have been nonplussed when he recalled...
Should there be another Blenheim we, like grandpa, must conclude...
...back to the good old antebellum days grandpa used to hark back to so often, we find they had very little of the political and economical ailments with which we are so sorely afflicted. We will find, also, that they had no telephones, telegraph, airplanes, radios, television, automobiles, and such trains as they had would not run faster than 25 miles per hour...
Died. Carl Emil Schultze, 72, famed oldtime cartoonist who created the character of "Foxy Grandpa"; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
TIME seems always in the market for new words so here's one my little niece coined. She was excited about a man on the street trying to crank an old-model car. In describing it to her Grandpa she said, "It was just a 'jalopidated...