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...Longest in history: Troy, which, according to none-too-reliable Correspondent Homer, fell to the Greeks after nine years. Longest other sieges of World War II: Tobruk, 252 days; Sevastopol, 230 days...
...subject (first of a CBS series, Tuesdays, 10-10:30 p.m., E.W.T.) was an English town. A narrator (Joseph Julian, onetime soap-opera star), a cast, and judicious music and sound effects told a simple, effective story. "Troy was a town," said the narrator. "So was Jericho. Lidice was a town. Likewise Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of Porciuncula, later to be known as Los Angeles. And Cromer was a town, and is a town, and you'll find it on a map of the east coast of England, in the district called East Anglia, facing...
...purpose ration book reaches all the nation's people so many extra millions of coupons will be spent each month that local ration boards will no longer be able to cope with the ever-mounting piles of papers. So OPA last week started testing, in the Albany-Schenectady-Troy area of New York, a plan for ration-coupon banking...
While the nation's bankers and OPA bigwigs watched the experiment with interest, some of the local Albany-Schenectady-Troy citizens who read of the new banking shenanigans in their papers were confused. A matron walked into one bank to buy a pound of sugar...
...fluting and acanthus leaves. About 1840, with the Victorian Age, gimcrackery went wild. Fancy stoves were designed like houses, with mansard roofs and movable iron puppets in the windows. There were also Chinese pagodas with swinging bells. In the most restrained taste was a job turned out by a Troy, N.Y. foundry (see cut), possessing a large humidifier urn on top, in which the housewife could put oil of cloves, cinnamon or verbena to scent the room, and a hot plate over the fire on which she could make...