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Proud and happy, the Amsterdam News printed an editorial about "The Air Trail Blazers...
...since a wild Friday in September 1869 when Jay Gould's attempt to corner the LT. S. market ran the price up to $162 and left behind a trail of ruin and corruption has gold been an active speculative medium in the U. S. Desultory trading continued to 1879 when gold payments were resumed. But from then until last April with the U. S. Government firmly tied to gold there was no incentive to speculate. With the U. S. now off the gold standard, gold miners, lacking a free supply & demand market and confronted with rising costs, are still...
...creative mind is best known is usually the one by which he would least prefer to be known. Stoddard King's work matured to such extremely fine flights of puckish fancy in his later years that the continual reference to the fact that he wrote "The Long, Long Trail'' irritated him. Many of us often thought that King would have liked to have the memory of that ditty buried. It obscured the value of the pungent wit and humor which poured in a continual and effortless stream from his typewriter into the pages of the Spokane Spokesman...
...trail's a lane, the trail's a lane. Dead is the branding fire. The prairies wild are tame and mild, All close corralled with wire. -Badger Clark...
...Mory's, the New Haven biers tube where Yale romantics like to think ''The Long, Long Trail" was written, Stod King's initials are carved on one of the big round table tops strung up around the wall. But his song is carved still deeper in the history of the War. Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Tenor Enrico Caruso sang it in Liberty Loan drives. Elsie Janis sang it in France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral...