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...Advocate are generally superior to the prose contributions. Donald Hall's "Epithalamion" is a haunting treatment of an old theme--the marriage of opposites. "Saint-Germain-des-Pres," by Lyon Phelps, is entirely an evocation of atmosphere, and it succeeds admirably within this limited intention. Lee Austin's "Truro; 1854" and Will Morgan's "The Golden Legend" are both musical and cryptically romantic, "Cryptic" would be too mild, however, to describe Douglas Freelander's "Almyra." As far as this reader is concerned, it is 16 lines of downright obscurantism...
...Truro last week, the annual convention of District 26, United Mine Workers of America, drew up its demands for 1949 wages. First & foremost was a whopping general increase of $2.56 a day over the present $7.64 basic rate. There were also carefully scaled demands for men who work at the coal face. Explained one union official: "It's a new type of policy we've adopted, with emphasis on the actual production of coal at the face . . . It's all bent towards increased production for the industry...
...delegates at Truro, representing 13,000 miners, wanted face workers like Tossy to make as much in five shifts as they now make in seven. This might be possible, if production goes up fast enough. Although District 26 has agreed to mechanization, it still wants assurance that there will be jobs for the men laid off-preferably new jobs created by the development of new industries, especially steel products, in the Sydney area...
...preached young (29) Presbyterian Minister Perry F. Rockwood in sermon after angry sermon in his little fieldstone church in Truro, Nova Scotia. "Hell," he told his flock, "is a place just as much as Truro is a place. It is not a condition Hell is a place of terrible pain, anguish and suffering. . . . Those who die in their sins must burn and burn and burn forevermore...
...outside Fort Erie's police station; Elgin County farmers got in some early plowing; a Proton farmer tapped some maple trees, found the sap running. At Goderich the courthouse lawn had to be trimmed. Bees and mosquitoes began buzzing around Dundalk. A flock of blackbirds chirped near Truro...