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FISCAL Trial of theCoins This week, as on every second Wednesday in February for the last 152 years, the Trial of the Coins was held at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. One of the few purely traditional ceremonies in U.S. government, it passed almost unnoticed...
Oklahoma! Fresh-as-mint folk musical with charming dancing and gay Richard Rodgers tunes (TIME, April...
Ever So Humble. In Philadelphia, Joseph Coia, a deserter from a Navy ship stationed in Brooklyn, was undone when he gave his draft board a home address smack in the middle of the U.S. Mint...
...historical information, is Van Wyck Brooks's book constructed. Its individual word-portraits-of Alexander Wilson, the dour ornithologist and bird-painter, of Davy Crockett, teller of tall backwoods tales, who thought they made a book "jump out of the press like a new dollar from a mint-hopper," of Fenimore Cooper, whose father gave him 23 farms in New York State when the future novelist was expelled from Yale-are equal to Brooks's best...
...leader of three million warlike, puritanical Senussi tribesmen give up hope of returning to his native desert. Never did he falter in hatred of the Italians who had cruelly dispersed his people and turned their holy city of Girabub into a fort. Over cups of China tea flavored with mint (Senussi Moslems may not touch alcohol or coffee), His Eminence entertained intriguing envoys from remote Saharan oases, helped recruit Senussi scouts and guerrillas for World War II's Battles of Libya, talked over with his British backers prospects of his return to Girabub...