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...Philadelphia to visit the U.S. Mint to make sure it isn't cheating on the metal content of U.S. coins. Before the group's departure, he gravely signs ornate commissions for each. Afterward, he receives a solemn report which notes that the mint is making no wooden nickels, no nickel-plated dimes...
...week James Earle Fraser, 74, is being honored with the gold medal of the National Institute of Arts and Letter* and with a big show. Most of the work that made him famous reflects his first childhood choice of subject. The best-known Fraser sculpture of all: the Indianhead nickel, with a buffalo on the reverse, that the U.S. Treasury issued in 1913. Until it was superseded in 1939 by the Jefferson nickel, U.S. mints stamped out more than a billion of them...
...theory, the big gain in engine production will come then. But the crucial test is whether, by the time these plants come into production, suitable substitutes can be developed for the critical metals now desperately short. If they cannot, the engine program will fail because there is not enough nickel, columbium, etc. in sight now to build the engines scheduled...
...novelist, Cardinal Spellman is bland and amateurish. But if his book will not advance American literature, it will do positive good in another quarter: every nickel of the proceeds (including about $40,000 from the Literary Guild) goes to the New York Foundling Hospital...
Five years ago, it switched to a nickel monthly aimed at all ages (sample subjects: pets, "Teen Scene," "Are You Making Good as a Grandma?"). With 18 editions for its distributors (Safeway is the biggest), Circle is now planning to boost its guaranteed circulation from...