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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sublime Conceit Sirs: In the interest of the record, and in order to save future historians much time, trouble and travail, will TIME, "the ablest historian of our day," search out the facts and report, definitely and unequivocally if possible, on the question of who first uttered that sublime conceit, "As goes Maine, so goes Vermont." MORRIS FREEDMAN Hollywood, Calif...
...birth of the quintuplets on his skill as an obstetrician. In one afternoon he finds himself obliged, as mentor for the 3,000, to: 1) succor a suicidal cinemactress, 2) trick a U. S. Governor into adopting a child, 3) bring his assistant and his nurse together, 4) save an old friend from losing his young wife. All this leaves the audience with renewed conviction that sequels are rarely as good as the first instalment...
...York's board was only partly right. The original of Santa Claus was St. Nicholas of Myra, in Lycia, Asia Minor, of whom little is known save that he was a 4th Century bishop. In the 11th Century, Italians of Bari stole his body, built a basilica about it, attributed to the saint many a miracle. St. Nicholas became the patron of Russia, Greece, the Kingdom of Naples, Sicily, Lorraine, Limerick, of children, pawnbrokers, mariners, coopers, brewers. Children came to expect secret gifts from St. Nicholas on the eve of his feast (Dec. 6). This far from notable bishop...
...should think the Australian Government would be ashamed of itself to permit these animals to die out and to allow their only benefactor, Mr. Burnet, virtually to starve due to his lone uphill fight to save them. Can't California do what Australia is apparently unwilling to do? Hasn't California many eucalyptus trees originally brought from Australia, and among the California eucalypti can't some of the twelve varieties the Koala feeds upon be found? California is a greathearted, energetic State. Will Californians interest themselves in the Koala...
...wrote Correspondent Walker S. Buel, so published the Cleveland Plain Dealer one morning last week. No fault of theirs was it that they knew no better than every newspaper save one in the U. S., no fault of theirs that a White House stenographer had forgotten to give Secretary Stephen Early for release a letter that the President had dictated night before, a few minutes before starting for South America...