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Regardless (I almost wrote "irregardless"!) of Mr. Gwirtzman's purpose in devoting a full page to discredit the Post, the CRIMSON editors would do well to keep on studying the Post series (it will only cost them a nickel a day) and show in what respect there are error...
Doing Coney Island on six bucks, Joey cossacks around the carousel and lances fiercely at the ring with a pudgy forefinger; he jangles vacant-eyed through a miniature scenic railway, slings a sledge as big as himself, whomps the nickel rockets grimly at the wooden milk bottles till they topple at last, and the victor's laurel-a limp paper lei-descends on his brow, and falls around his neck...
Died. James Earle Fraser, 76, who at 17 fashioned the model for one of the most famed and popular of U.S. sculptures, End of the Trail, depicting a weary Indian sagging on an exhausted pony, later designed the buffalo nickel; of a heart ailment; in Westport, Conn...
World War II interrupts these amusements, and Claude goes unwhipped for years. After the war François tries to find his childhood friends again. Denise has grown into a woman as stunning and desirable as "my beautiful bicycle when I was eight years old ... all nickel and ultramarine enamel." Francois marries her, but he cannot forget Claude. She has almost ruined herself by spending too much time in the primrose (or aquamarine) bed of dalliance with a bunch of softies. But soon after the slapping incident, François is seen pursuing her through a forest on horseback, whipping...
...delivery man entered with a box of pies. What was the bill, asked Bill? Four dollars and ninety-five cents? He clanged open the register, and tossed the man five dollars. "Keep the nickel," he said. "Have some ham and eggs!" The pieman falteringly said: "Eggs maybe. But not ham. My faith forbids it." "You'll eat ham and like it!" cried Bill. The pieman closed his eyes, opened them...