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...Away out yonder in Missouri, Harry Truman gratefully accepted $6,200 from his Independence neighbors as a contribution toward building his projected $1,750,000 Truman Library, which will house his mountain of personal papers and other Trumaniana. He was especially pleased to contemplate such a shrine...
...Orleans (Jo Stafford & Frankie Laine; Columbia LP). Two favorite singers blend their talents for a reminiscence of New Orleans. The Stafford-Laine city is a place of chimney sweeps (Raminay!), gastronomy (Jambalaya), and nostalgia (Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, etc.). Some of the backgrounds give a jazzlike lift to the proceedings...
...more than a century-while Portland (pop. 373,628) grew bigger than its namesake-few people bothered to wonder whether or not it had been misnamed. Last week, however, Portland Author Stewart (Holy Old Mackinaw, Ethan Allen, Murder Out Yonder) Holbrook, a transplanted Vermonter himself, was suggesting that Portland should be Portland no longer. Backed by a committee of six, he petitioned the city council to let Portlanders vote on changing the city's name in a special election this autumn...
...yonder hill Who seems to dote
...Marines sing From the Halls of Montezuma, the Navy sings Anchor's Aweigh, the Air Force sings Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder, but the nearest thing to an Army theme song is the old horse-artillery number, The Caissons Go Rolling Along-and few soldiers have seen a caisson since World...