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...bridge, a comfortable day's drive, live 35,000,000 people, a fourth of the U. S. population, a third of Canada's. To many of these the link meant an international short cut to a neighbor's dooryard; to others, weekends in the bass and muskellunge waters, easier access to a prime vacation land. But to a "whimsical few the route had still another charm. Nearer the U. S. than ever were Ontario's Dionne quintuplets...
Civil War Songs (Tues., 6:30 p.m. CBS) of abolitionists, slaves, election campaigns directed by Musical Antiquarian Elie Siegmeister, sung by Soprano Helen Marshall, Tenor Charles Haywood, Bass Daryll Woodyard, Baritone Hubert Hendrie and a male quartet...
...President had transformed himself into the Statesman of the Democratic Party and gone voter-wooing (see p. 7). The Vice President was puttering around his home in Texas, fishing for bass, gar and cats in the Nueces River. Congress had been gone three weeks. Most of the Cabinet were scattering for vacation.* Except for the Secretaries of State and the Navy, the only top functionaries of the U. S. Government left in hot Washington last week were the Spenders & Lenders...
...while the band played and the young ladies eyed their admirers. They danced, trained fighting cocks, learned to drink. Sometimes they got into little scrapes with the police or the townspeople: when Con Shepherd tried to jump his horse over the drummer in the band, and landed in the bass drum; when Grant knocked down a Mexican policeman. But such pranks hurt nobody; the Americans were popular, President Porfirio Diaz maintained order in the land. The Shepherd girls grew up and married Americans. The boys went to work: Alex in charge of the power plant; Grant in charge...
Married. Joanne Bass, 22, daughter of New Hampshire's former Governor Robert P. Bass; to Marshall Field Jr., 22, Harvard senior, grandson of the late Chicago Financier Marshall Field; in East Walpole, Mass. Like his friend John Roosevelt (see p. 9), at whose wedding he ushered two days before his own, he received his Harvard degree in absentia...