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...noticed that you have listed Portland, Ore., as "The Rose City" (TIME, Jan. 30). This city has maintained that title for some thirty-two years or more. However, without research we know of three other cities which have adopted the slogan of "The City of Roses"-i. e., Little Rock, Ark.; Thomasville, Ga.; and Victoria, Texas...
Bott Advertising Agency Little Rock...
...Tokuji Hayakawa, onetime railway conductor, now builder-operator of the newly opened Tokyo subway (TIME, Jan. 9), contrasted, last week, his construction methods with those used in Manhattan. Since a great part of Tokyo is not, like Manhattan founded upon a rock, no drilling whatever was necessary and the Tokyo tube was simply buried in trenches cut with ease in the soft soil...
...Minnesota, where the Mississippi spreads itself to be Lake Pepin, a giant rock looms high, the grim reminder of the fate of the Princess Winona. Strangers passing by are inevitable told of the Indian girl and her love for Chatonska, bravest of her uncle's warriors, how with him away at battle she was wedded against her will to the hawk-nosed Matosapa, chief of a neighboring tribe, how, singing, she jumped to her death "and the place ever since has been known as Maiden Rock...
Professor Rock says in his letter that at the time of writing his baggage and property of the Arnold Arboretum were in the hands of an gent of the Standard Oil Company, and that as soon as the road was open he would be able to ship the latter to Yunnanfu and from there forward it to Boston...