Word: utica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...print: the only known example of a one-penny postage stamp, black on magenta, printed by hand in 1856 by the stamp-starved inhabitants of British Guiana. Seller: the widow of Plush Manufacturer Arthur M. Hind of Utica, N. Y., whose husband, after World War I, is said to have bought it at auction in Paris for $32,500. Buyer: an anonymous private collector...
...scorers who qualified for match play had shot 149 or less-lowest qualifying mark ever chalked up in an amateur tournament sponsored by the U. S. Golf Association. If that were not distinction enough, two youngsters-husky Worth Stimits of Colorado Springs and Edward Furgol of Utica, N. Y. (handicapped by a crooked left arm)-turned in 138, to break by one stroke the U. S. amateur record for a qualifying round...
...past years Soviet famine news has proved too dangerous for Moscow correspondents even to smuggle out. But last week to London from Moscow went a onetime Utica, N. Y. journalist. Spencer Williams, who at last could talk freely-even of famine-after spending some ten years in the Soviet Union as secretary of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. His Moscow office recently "closed until further notice...