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Last week, the Dutch finally and handsomely acknowledged that legends could become real. Beside the 600-year-old Spaarndam Lock, the Dutch Tourist Association had erected a bronze statue of the boy, kneeling before the dike, finger in the hole...
Another, Ernest Krinby, of Aniak, an old sourdough, admits that times have changed. He recalls that 20 years ago there were two mail deliveries a year by dog team, and that on those occasions you would "lock the door and read for a week." Now the mail plane arrives every day, weather permitting. Says he: "Civilization is creeping up on us. And," he adds, contrary to all literary expectations, "we are glad...
...other House baseball game, Winthrop's last Straus Trophy hopes faded completely when Adams came from behind to tie the Puritans, 4 to 4. Bill Goodman, Gold Coast catcher, singled home the run that gave Adams a dead-lock. Both pitchers, Rog Davis of Adams, and Mel Zurier of Winthrop, went the distance...
...primary only a fortnight away, Frank Graham still seemed to be the man to beat. He had little to worry about from one opponent, demagogic Robert ("Buncombe Bob") Reynolds, 65, who was hitting the comeback trail with his same old isolationist line: "I say stop immigration now and lock the gates securely, because I know we have not a friend on earth." But Reynolds seemed to have lost his punch...
Wrote Jones to the subcommittee: "I think [RFC] should be given a decent burial, lock, stock & barrel. None of the emergency conditions which prompted [its] creation exists today. When the Government finances business, it is competing with private enterprise from which it gets much of its income. When it finances improvident business, it takes from the profits of competing business, gets no taxes from the improvident, and loses on its loan...