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...Tom Blanton replies...
...Ronald Reagan declared that Americans should "never again" go to war "unless we intend to win." Magicians and stand-up comics have sought to amuse. A press release has been circulated announcing that California Governor Jerry Brown will get the "Benedict Arnold Citizenship Award" for appointing ex-antiwar Activist Tom Hayden to the state's new solar energy panel. And now Tony Bennett is closing the show with a sad, silky version of Autumn Leaves. Off to the side, watching them, one begins to sense in some measure what they have endured, and still endure. They perfectly illustrate some...
...exhibited itself. Harvard's answer to Goliath, 6-ft., 6-in., 212-pounder George Aitken of England, (who had missed the Navy race and several practices due to nagging injuries) collapsed at the finish line and had to receive emergency medical treatment. Number two man Gordy Gardiner and captain Tom Howes clutched weary and injury-riddled shoulders...
State Assembly Speaker Leo McCarthy predicts that 75,000 local employees will be fired statewide out of a total of 1.2 million, plus an additional 76,000 federally funded employees. Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley proposed layoffs of 8,300 city employees (out of 49,349), including 1,600 cops. More than half will be trainees recently hired under the Federal Government's CETA (for Comprehensive Employment Training Act), which is aimed at helping unskilled, unemployed people, many of whom are black...
Once upon a time there was a small and shy boy named Jay who lived in a huge house. Its 32 rooms were filled with tapestries and wood carvings. In an enormous library with shelves from floor to ceiling, he could curl up and read Dickens and Stevenson and Tom Swift. Best of all, tucked in a corner of the garden was a little cave where Jay used to sit for hours and imagine that it had once belonged to King Arthur. In the evening, he and his family discussed literature, and sometimes Jay made up stories for them...