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...last week blonde Clara Jo Proudfoot, 4, of Miami called on the President of the United States. Born with an imperfectly closed spine (spina bifida) and paralyzed from the waist down, Clara Jo was promoting the Easter Seal drive of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults. As he saw the little girl laboriously making her way into his office on heavy steel braces and pink crutches that matched her well-starched dress, the President uttered an involuntary gasp. He started toward the girl as if to pick her up and carry her to his desk, then checked himself...
Archaeologists speculated that the necropolis must have belonged to the Etruscan city of Spina, which is mentioned in classical literature. But they did not find Spina. They did not find all of the treasures, either. Many of the valuable objects were poached by night-digging Comacchiesi, who sold their illegal loot on the archaeological black market...
Cold weather recently stopped the official digging, and police are frustrating the free lancers. Spina, the mother lode of the treasure, has not yet been found. Perhaps it lies under the mud not far away. There is a rumor that Professor Arias knows where it is, but is keeping mum. Sophisticates in nearby Ferrara do not believe this. "When Spina is found," they say, "the Comacchiesi will find...
...living members of Battery D had taken off. Tommy Murphy was there, jaunty and sharp in a double-breasted grey suit. Eugene Donnelly wore a silk hat. Frank Spina, Harry Truman's Kansas City barber, had a new silk guidon, three times regulation size, inscribed in gold with the names of the places where Battery D had fought: the Vosges Mountains, the Meuse-Argonne, Verdun. Four sleeping cars rolled eastward...
Next morning he was up early, skipped his usual ritual of a morning walk because of chilling rain. His old Army barber, Frank Spina, dropped by to give him a haircut, reported that the presidential locks had scarcely thinned since 1917. Just before noon Harry Truman got the news he had come for. Brigadier General Wallace Graham, the Presidential physician, reported that old Mrs. Truman would be sitting up by the end of the month, might even be able to walk again...