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Last week as the temperature rose steadily, the Tanana ice-jam began moving, drawing the wire taut. At 8:04 p. m. May 12 the trigger was tripped, the clock stopped, making Mervin E. Anderson, 31-year-old Fairbanks bus driver, whose guess of 8:02 p. m. was nearest correct, some $75,000 richer. Day before Guesser Anderson split with another guesser the $3,500 first prize in another similar pool based on the movement of ice in the Chena River at Fairbanks...
...Bravest of these attempts have come from such contemporary novelists as John Dos Passos, Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe. To the lesser footnotes Novelist Nathan Asch (The Office, Pay Day) this week added his own modestly tentative, well-written account of what the U. S. means after a four-month bus trip...
Like Dos Passos, Author Asch believes the way to go about anatomizing the U. S. is to examine the private histories of the people who are not news. "What I wanted to see was what was so typical that to the natives it was almost banal." He took a bus because it was cheapest, because train travel is stilted and because in an automobile "the only ones you get to talk to are filling station men and traffic cops." In a bus the atmosphere is unaffected, intimate. "Under the murderous vibration . . . you've got to relax . . . everybody sings...
...week's end the court of inquiry had decided that busmen should have slower schedules, had not decided about the 7½-hour day. The busmen, however, agreed to vote on these partial findings and Londoners did not despair of being able to bus to the Coronation...
...dissipating the labor clouds, talked discursively about "miners being human beings," about "practicing the arts of peace in a world of strife," about "democracy and its relation to our industrial conditions." Only once did he make any reference to the one topic uppermost in everyone's mind-the bus strike. He declared, "The whole world has its eyes today on London. ... I appeal to the handful of men with whom rests peace or war to give the best present to this country that could be given at this moment...