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...state that [an] 1859 penny has an "unidentified" Indian on the obverse [TIME, Jan. 19]. If my information is correct, the model was not an Indian but was Sarah Longacre, then twelve years old. Miss Longacre posed for her father, who at that time was Chief Engraver for the Mint...
...that he had been listening to his children practicing Christmas carols and "they don't sound quite right in hot weather." He figured on eating the turkey cold and taking a swim after dinner. For the traditional Christmas eggnog, the William Whites, in Rio de Janeiro, are substituting mint juleps. Our Bogotá correspondent, Jerry Hannifin, says he is going to spend the day alligator hunting. In Mexico City, Bureau Chief John Stanton had no worries beyond a slight apprehension over the fate of his children's toys (their Mexican playmates won't get theirs until...
...frost, mint and sweet basil...
...fiction, House Divided is often contrived and melodramatic. As history, it is the war dimly seen through a haze of corruption, mismanagement, profiteering, draft-dodging, mint juleps and delusions of grandeur. Tedious as that is, readers can hardly fail to be impressed by the author's epic attempt to disinter the whole Confederacy. Says one character: "The Lord is on our side, but in consequence of pressing engagements elsewhere He could not attend at Fisher's Creek, Winchester, and Atlanta." If the Lord could not attend, history-grubbing Author Williams could, after a fashion...
...wish to call your attention to an error published in TIME, May 26, in connection with the death of John R. Sinnock, chief engraver of the United States Mint, Philadelphia. He was given the "credit of being the designer of the Purple Heart. This is a mistake, as I was the designer and Mr. Sinnock the sculptor. This is substantiated by records of the War Department...