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Never Call Retreat. In Helena, Mont. charged with shooting a bear out of season, Willis Kroll at first claimed self-defense, changed his plea and was fined $52.50 when Game Warden William Eckerson testified that the animal had been potted in the tail...
...Nashotah House, Racine College, ¶ Daniel Sylvester Tuttle (1837-1923), the son of a Methodist blacksmith in Windham, N.Y., who was graduated from Columbia College and General Theological Seminary, became missionary bishop of Montana (with jurisdiction in Utah and Idaho). For a time he ministered to his flock from Helena, Mont., otherwise known as Last Chance Gulch. In 1886 big "Bishop Dan," bearded and baldheaded, became Bishop of Missouri. Though deaf as a doorstop from middle age, he presided ably over meetings with the aid of an "informer." When he died at 86, he had been a bishop...
...rough time. "The danger of war in the Far East arises not from Chinese but from American aggression," cried Bevanite Harold Wilson. "Surely it is clear by now that peace will not be insured until Chiang Kai-shek and his chief lieutenants have been safely stowed away on St. Helena and the U.S. Seventh Fleet sent to guard him there." At week's end, the Labor Party unanimously approved a resolution demanding that the government tell the U.S. "it could not reckon on any military assistance from Britain in hostilities connected with the offshore islands...
Fourteen months ago Admiral Pride was given command of the Seventh Fleet. When he transferred his flag to the Helena, his cabin was one that had once been prepared for President Truman. The walls were painted robin's-egg blue, there was a television set and a spinet. Said Pride: "Goodness gracious, what's going on in this boudoir?" Actually, the spinet was not a bad idea: Pride likes to make music, plays the piccolo, flute, harmonica and ocarina...
During World War II he picked up a "nose flute," used by South Pacific islanders who like to make music and chew betel nut at the same time. He was recently heard to play Abdul, the Bulbul Ameer on this odd instrument. At nights aboard the Helena, Pride's staff gathers in the wardroom for informal musical sessions, with the ship's paymaster banging out tunes on the spinet in the key of C (which is the only one he knows) while other musical officers toot away on harmonicas...