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Fast Enough. How fast is a snail's pace? At College Park, Md., U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service conchologists (mollusk fanciers) were measuring to find out. Dr. Paul Galtsoff puts a seagoing snail inside a drum of transparent plastic. When the snail moves (either forward or backward) the drum revolves, recording the snail's motion on a sheet of smoked paper. Conchs move fastest: an average 19 feet an hour. Little oyster drills, one inch long, move only a couple of feet...
ROSAMOND B. BEACH Havre de Grace, Md...
Married. Norman Corwin, 36, prize-winning radio scripter; and Actress Katherine Locke, thirtyish; she for the second time, he for the first; in Elkton, Md...
...Completely legendary. After writing his famous poem about Barbara, Poet John Greenleaf Whittier was told that Stonewall Jackson did not even pass the Frietchie house in Frederick, Md. and that if he had, Barbara could not have leaned out the window to speak her impassioned lines ("Shoot, if you must, this old gray head . . .") as she was bedfast at the time. Snapped Whittier: "It seems to be admitted that Barbara Frietchie had a Union flag in her house; if she did not show it on that occasion, so much the worse for Frederick City...
Well set on the inside track, the Ambassador still had to live down his name. Anti-Americans referred to him as "William" Belt; his paternal grandfather, John Benjamin Belt of Beltsville, Md., had settled in Cuba after serving as Jeff Davis' purchasing agent there during the Civil War. After the 1933 revolution, young Belt became Havana's mayor at 29. In Washington he has worked diligently for bigger sugar quotas and other things good for Cuba. At the U.N. Assembly last fall he attacked the Soviet stand on the veto...