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...distribution to readers like India's Pandit Nehru and Industrialists N. H. Tata and G. D. Birla; to Shanghai Mayor K. C. Wu, Siam Premier Phibun Songgram, Oilman B. C. Jones in Dili, Portuguese Timor, 23 subscribers in Zamboanga, one in Tibet; to William Eu (Singapore), Jan de Groot (Batavia), and thousands of other plain citizens...
...than twice what the committee hoped for. Even that, Borculo admitted, would not help much financially, but already the villagers had a scheme in mind to spend it so that all the citizens of resurrected Warren might benefit. They would turn it to furniture for a public building. Cabinetmaker Groot Landeweer thought a sturdy oak chair carved with Borculo's coat of arms would make a good item. Parchmentmaker Nathan Elzas put aside a particularly fine calfskin. That, he was certain, could be turned into several lampshades that would be just right for Warren...
Kibitzer. In a Los Angeles court, Bernard William Butynski asked permission to change his name to Bernard William de Groot...
...life, and Norman Mailer's "The Greatest Thing in the World," the lead story in the latest issue of the Advocate, strikes a crumbling blow at the magazine's much-discussed and usually exaggerated "ivory tower." Mr. Roosevelt's characterization "underprivileged" is a euphemism when applied to A1 Groot, the protagonist of the tale. Driven by the cruel necessity of keeping his wizened little body alive, this "small, old, wrinkled boy of eighteen or nineteen" pits his wits against a gang of "sucker players" bent on taking his last grimy dollar. The reality of the situation has the emotional conviction...
Jerry Farnsworth, able Cape Cod portraitist, whose Jan de Groot took the $150 Thomas R. Proctor Prize for the best portrait in the show...