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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wrote the article in your June 3 issue headed "Miltown? No Martinis!"? The bird who pecked out another story in the People section concerning the search in the Library of Congress for an old song wanted by a Congressman? The Library of Congress system bears about the same resemblance to the Dewey decimal system as I'd Rather Be a Lobster Than a Wise Guy bears to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Two institutions as holy as the Library of Congress and the Martini are not laughing matters...
...everlasting glory of the Dewey decimal system" in no way assisted the L.C. in its search for the song about the lobster. The Library of Congress uses its own system. MARJORIE W. SCHAAP Hollis...
...midnight Detroit and the towns for miles around were alive with search parties. Police loudspeakers blared down the streets, calling her name, exhorting families to search their houses for the girl. Boy Scouts and soldiers hunted the swamps and thickets of the countryside...
...thin rain along the tortuous mountain road that winds from Milan along the side of Lake Como to the Swiss frontier. Near Dongo, 30 miles from the Swiss border, the lead armored car was stopped by a roadblock. Italian partisans, members of the fabled 52nd Garibaldi Brigade, began their search. One of the things they found was a grotesque figure of a man in a swastika-marked helmet with a German corporal's greatcoat draped over his black-shirted Fascist uniform. Two days later the squat man, Benito Mussolini, and his doxy Claretta Petacci were hanging upside down outside...
...Camera." Gronchi requested conservative Senate President Cesare Merzagora to search the political horizon for possible Cabinets. Through this device Gronchi could extend his Cabinet-building negotiations to influential politicians who do not happen to be heads of parties, ex-Presidents or ex-Premiers-the only people Italy's President is constitutionally entitled to consult. And as he emerged from the President's office deep in the Quirinal Palace, Merzagora said: "In this situation I am merely a camera. I shall bring back precise and detailed photographs for the President of the Republic...