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Political Camouflage. Finally, Bill the Check Passer rose to speak, and his argument was just the sort of thing his audience understood. "Guests of Norfolk, voluntary and involuntary," he began, "a free national health service will not make medical services better, but worse. The neurotics and malingerers will swamp our doctors and make it impossible for them to tend the really sick. I have been an unwilling native in a socialist Utopia for some time, and I know it will not work . . . This talk of free service is just political camouflage...
...past three years thousands of American have been picking up their newspapers and turning to the comic section. After a chuckle filled five minutes in the heart of the Okefenokee swamp, they feel fortified against the news the front page has to offer...
...Kelly's improvements on the comic strip routine is to run two stories in each strip. While the characters are following one in Kelly's own brand of swamp talk, they act out another. The first provides the thread of a series from strip to strip, and the second gives a complete tale all in one strip...
Cohane concludes with the fortunate reminder that football is still a game little boys and students can play. He maintains that Yale, which led college football into the swamp has now found the proper perspective in amateurism. One would like to think Cohane is right. If every Old Blue, however, reads this tale of the days when Yale meant football, and weeps for Herman, then scares up some more talent for the Fat Man, Yale's amateurism might well become as mythical as Frank Merriwell...
...clear in the fog of early morning, lately shrill with the cries of the vacationist and his young. The town greens had subsided into their dreaming quiet and the beaches were left to the surfcasters. Vermont's fields were gilded with goldenrod, shadowed with purple asters, and the swamp maples glowed...