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...Canadians needed statistics to remind them that 1951 was a banner year. Evidence of the boom ran clear across the country, from the $9 million mining development to get more iron ore from under the Atlantic off Newfoundland, to the $27 million pulp mill built by Columbia Cellulose Co. (an affiliate of Celanese Corp. of America) near Prince Rupert in the Pacific Northwest. Other developments...
Before the Davis Cup matches with Sweden last week, U.S. Captain Frank Shields kept telling his players to keep plugging, that the Swedes were no pushovers. It was hardly necessary to remind the U.S. team that Sweden had given Australia a real fight a year ago before losing the round, 3-2. What's more, no one was quite sure whether or not the Swedish team, in its indifferent showing this year, was up to some foxy strategy: not once, in two warm-up tournaments, had the Swedes met a U.S. Cup player...
...This time the raiders had to scale a cliff before reaching the rail line, but they blew a stretch of track into a mess of twisted steel. Purpose of the two attacks was not only to slow down the enemy's southward flow of war supplies, but to remind him that the lull in the Korean fighting was not by any means a total ceasefire. It was one more oddity of an odd war that after weeks of palaver over where a truce line should be, so much of last week's fighting should take place far beyond...
However, the editors remind contributors. "The Bulletin will not set itself up as an omniscient agency to dictate--in abstract terms--the perfect solution of problems ... it will primarily be interested in fostering an exchange of practical, technical information on student problems...
Other oldtimers around town couldn't keep away. Benny Goodman, Eddie Condon ("What kind of a sophisticated place is this? I can't even send drinks to the bandstand") and even Red's exwife, Mildred (Rockin' Chair) Bailey, kept dropping in. To remind others where they first heard his name, Red Norvo kept salting his half-hour stands with such tunes as Strike Up the Band, Night and Day, Sweet Georgia Brown-songs he used to rap out on his "woodpile" (xylophone) with Paul Whiteman's band 20 years...