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...always walks with the same girl; and when you say attaboy, you mean either bravo, get at it again, or a member of an air transport auxiliary corps. After consulting the dictionary, Danes would have no trouble following the English dialogue of such Hollywood hits as Himlen kan vente (Heaven Can Wait), might tackle the best-selling Der gror et Trae i Brooklyn in the original...
...Garden City, Kan., John Lavore, a passenger on a snowbound bus, struck up a conversation with Passenger Thelma McLean, talked to her two nights in a row, next day married...
...hill village of Shirakawa, Hikosaku Matsumoto, 62, is called "Hyakkan Jii San"-100-kan oldster-because of his boast that he can lift 100 kan (825 Ibs.). His undisciplined white beard and scholarly bald dome make him look more like an elderly monk than an athlete. His nickname delights him so much that, after the manner of Tony Galento's boxing trunks, he has "Hyakkan" written in Chinese characters down the front of his athletic blouse...
...have tied to convenient roadside trees the day before. A younger, less durable friend followed on a bicycle, but Matsumoto breezed into Tokyo with enough wind left to tell startled bystanders about his run. He also wheezed a challenge: at a Shirakawa shrine festival he would lift a 70-kan (579-lb.) stone, would give a prize of ten yen (65?) to anyone who could lift more. Sneered Matsumoto: "Youngsters these days are too soft...
...Midwest farmers, there was good news last week from the little town of Baxter Springs, Kan. (pop. 4,921). The news: the RFC-owned Jayhawk Ordnance Works, giant producer of chemicals for wartime explosives, had been taken over by a private company to make badly needed ammonium nitrate fertilizer. Jayhawk expected to become the world's largest maker of it, cut $3 to $4 a ton off prices to farmers...