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...limited number of each vane (an average of 20) will be reproduced for collectors at prices up to $500 (price in the 1850s: about $60). After that, Antique Hunter Halpert will donate the molds to a museum, and folk sculpture of weather vanes is likely to become as extinct as figurehead carving for clipper ships...
...dining room for The Cleanest. But there were only six names on the plaque. Frogly, Master of the House across the way, boasted twelve names on his plaque. He looked up at the tower on Frogly's House. The giant gold star was fixed right under the weather vane, telling everyone in Cambridge that here was The Cleanest House...
...verbal counterattack. Government officials have been advised to take every opportunity in their speeches to play up the strength of the economy. To keep better tabs on business conditions, the new Government agency, ABEGS (Advisory Board on Economic Growth and Stability), is making special studies on such weather-vane industries as autos, appliances and apparel, so that any serious trouble can be spotted early...
...last twelve presidential elections, Idaho and the nation have gone the same way. This year the state has no other statewide political race to cause any side drafts on the presidential contest. A close look at the weather vane-through the eyes of the Associated Press poll of local editors and of the state's most experienced political observers-last week gave an indication of the late September wind direction: In Idaho, Ike Eisenhower seems to be ahead...
...drama department of the Boston Conservatory of Music will present the play "Outward Bound" by Sutton Vane tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. The public is invited. --From the Boston Traveler, December...