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Your March 15 article, "Woe Throughout the Nomes," reads: "As it was in the beginning, piercing lamentations arose last week from Wallagrass, Maine to San Ysidro, Calif." Being a "Mainiac" for some 23 years, your reference to Wallagrass has me stumped. Maine has its Waldo, its Winnegance, and its Wiscasset; but where, pray tell, is its Wallagrass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 5, 1954 | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...beginning, piercing lamentations arose last week from Wallagrass, Maine to San Ysidro, Calif. Some U.S. taxpayers tried to smile through their tears. Along with their painfully signed checks, they sent the usual enclosures: old shirts ("Here's the shirt off my back; you have everything else"), locks of hair ("I've been clipped"), and pieces of human skin carefully taped to cards ("You got my hide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Woe Throughout the Nomes | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

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