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Under the Rug. In Jamestown, N.Y., the daily Sun printed a classified ad reporting the loss of a brown toupee, adding: "If found, call Midway Amusement Park and ask for Baldy...
COMPLAINT: TEXTBOOKS UNDERPLAY JAMESTOWN AND PURITANS; FACT: MORE EMPHASIS AND SPACE GIVEN TO JAMESTOWN, ETC., THAN TO CATHOLIC SETTLERS WEST AND SOUTHWEST...
...Worthy of another article and somebody's research time would be a look inside their [text] books. You would be amazed at the influence of Catholicism on American history. Jamestown and the Puritans are strictly underplayed; what counts is the early missionary activity. Even geography takes on Catholic overtones, and at our house we are still trying to answer one quiz question, 'Who discovered St. Anthony's Falls...
Unitypo Inc., two have been sold, eight folded. The survivors: > New York's Jamestown Sun (11,925), also run by Publisher Byrne, who says that after nine years of life it is now in the black and "for sale." < Labor's Daily of Bettendorf, Iowa, a money-losing, nationally distributed tabloid for union members, whose fate is to be decided this week by a special A.F.L.-C.I.O. committee in Washington. < The eight-year-old Columbia Basin News (circ. 11,409), published in Pasco, Wash. The News has been heavily subsidized (at least $500,000) by the I.T.U...
Ties That Bind. Responded Queen Elizabeth: "In Virginia, I was reminded of the early beginnings of the U.S. and of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Here in Washington, so often a focus for the aspirations of the free world, our thoughts turn naturally to the future. The Jamestown Festival commemorates an age of discovery and exploration. There are many indications today that we are at the beginning of a new age of discovery and exploration in the world of human knowledge and technology. Only a short time ago these unexplored areas of human knowledge seemed as impenetrable as the forests...