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Poland's tyrants, according to Spivak, are amiable, intelligent playboys, its people hopeless serfs. Asked what he most wanted, a Polish peasant subsisting on potatoes replied: "If I could have a little salt for my potatoes." Pressed for a serious answer, he stammered, "Well, if I could have a little sugar I could have sugar in my tea on Sundays." Told by Spivak that these were trifles, he replied with dignity, "Salt in potatoes is no trifle...
Czechoslovakia is a democracy but Spivak included a chapter on its terror because Czechoslovak peasants, like Poles, eat potatoes without salt, give up everything they have to tax collectors to pay for Czechoslovakia's huge Army...
...those who attend Harvard in the next few years if Professor Kittredge can be induced from time to time to talk. Most of his students have feared his harp tongue and quick impatience. But they have respected his great learnings and gloried in his eccentricities and mannerisms. More salt of the Kittredge kind in colleg lecture halls would be a boon to American education. --New York Herald-Tribune...
Pete Stone held St. Mark's to three hits as the Freshman nine gained their thirteenth straight victory 8-4. Brilliant fielding by the schoolboys made the game a real contest and the Yearlings did not salt the game away until the eighth inning...
...Cities and towns in the Philadelphia's itinerary: Hartford, Boston, Springfield, Toronto, Chicago, Urbana, Ill., Evansville, Ind., Atlanta, New Orleans, Birmingham, Little Rock, Dallas, El Paso, Phoenix, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Denver, Holdrege, Neb., Omaha, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, Manhattan...