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Read with great amusement your Oct. 22 article, "Skirmish on Munjoy Hill." With proper management, the city of Portland, Me. could attain the importance of a Boston or New York; with one of the finest natural arbors on the entire East Coast, it could rank high with the right people in office...
...Walsh, had been stripped of up to 70% of their key personnel, and had endured levies "far in excess of a fair share." The Guard wanted it stopped. "Wise commanders," said Senator Ed Martin, himself a former commander of Pennsyl vania's 28th Guard Division, know that men "attain greater gallantry in battle when they fight by the side of comrades who know and understand them...
...always had an extraordinary interest in politics. The main trouble with politics is that people in all strata of life have used public officials as their errand boys and office clerks. Another trouble lies in the huge income that a man must have to attain public office." The only way a candidate can get around this, he contends, is to get the backing of some potent, good-government group like the C.C.A...
Graduation has riddled the Harvard squad down the all-important middle, but a fair 1951 bench, plus a couple of remaining outstanding pitchers, can enable McInnis' team to attain a respectable standing in the ten-team Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League next spring. Harvard consistently holds its own in this as well as other strictly amateur sports, and has sent its small share of players into professional baseball...
...prevent this water from becoming a breeding place for mosquitoes? Yeah, fish-but not only mosquito fish, but other varieties of tropical fish that breed like mad, and then we sell the progeny to fish lovers. Now we are unique, not because of the water, but because we attain mosquito control at a profit...