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...million Illinoisans who went to their 90th State Fair in Springfield last week had fun. They squished happily through the straw-covered mud of the midway, saw a cow sculptured in 500 Ibs. of butter, ate prodigious quantities of hot dogs, drank gallons of sickening sweet orangeade, bought ''chameleons from Cuba," had the Lord's Prayer engraved on pennies, and knowingly appraised prize livestock...
...will extend its present mid-Pacific routes: 1) from Manila to Saïgon, Singapore and Batavia; 2) from Midway to Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong; and 3) from Hong Kong via Saïgon, Bangkok and Rangoon to Calcutta, where it will connect with its North Atlantic route...
...much more time than it takes to lay a keel, war-born Vanport City became Oregon's second largest city (pop. 39,000). When V-J day came and its Kaiser shipyard workers left, the city-midway between Vancouver, Wash, and Portland, Ore.-began to die. Last week the joint was jumping again...
...pressed for time, read the first half of the book and toss it away. Some place midway between the middle and the last third, Miss Howe begins to search for a soul for Dorothea. She finds it for her--you've guessed it--not in Cambridge, but Out West, among the peepul. Not until Dorothea joins the bedpan brigade in a Boston hospital and follows it up with a train trip (tourist class) to Idaho, does she discover Life...
...French Davis Cupsters were overconfident and undertrained. In Paris last week, they squeezed past Yugoslavia in the first two matches, then lost the rest. France's No. 2 star, Pierre Pellizza, looked so pitiful that he was withdrawn midway through the competition. The No. 1 star, balding, 6 ft. 7 in. Yvon Petra got too tired in his final match to run after the ball. The score: Yugoslavia 3, France...