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...engraved tablets (brass this time) in Walworth County, Wis. In 1869 diggers near Cardiff, N.Y. unearthed what was thought to be petrified proof positive of a vanished race of American supermen-until it developed that the 2,966-lb. "giant" had been carved (out of Iowa gypsum) by a joker in Chicago...
Occupation. Allied troops (the Red Army in Finland and the Balkan countries, U.S. and British troops in Italy) will withdraw from the ex-enemy nations within 90 days after the treaties come into force. But Russia put a joker into the Hungary and Rumania treaties; it can keep "such armed forces as it may need for maintenance of lines of communication of the Red Army with the Soviet zone of occupation in Austria." (Meanwhile, the Russians refuse even to consider peace with Austria.) Although the easiest access to Austria for the U.S. and Britain is through the Adriatic, the Western...
...early embarrassment, and filed for mayor of Seattle last winter, the city was delighted. Some politicos even guessed that he had a chance. The incumbent, Mayor William F. Devin, a good, dull, reform mayor, had followed close on the heels of an earlier good, dull reform mayor with no joker in between. Perhaps the voters would make a change, just for laughs. But by last week Seattle had learned the shattering truth-Vic was a serious man, too. He was through with gags...
...June forecast was very good, if not quite so good as it looked: a wheat crop of 1,084,652,000 bu. (the largest ever); crops of oats, hay, some, fruits, and potatoes all promise to be well above average. The joker in all this is freakish weather. Part of Texas has had a record drought, part of Oklahoma has had too much rain and part too little. And many states have good prospects provided the freakish weather does not continue much longer, something that is highly problematical this year, as always...
...joker who said that the messenger watch was easy? Ye gods, they must have saved a week's messages for us, if that's true...