March Hill Teems With Awakening On Readied Maine Hill
March Hill marks the hump month as winter loosens its hold in Friendship Maine with corn snow crusts, skidding winds, and a chorus of awakening wildlife. Snowshoe rabbits begin browning, partridges drum in vernal ecstasy, and ruffed grouse perform mating rites as crows and a raven arrive from Dixie. Porcupines haul to sunlit limbs while the season’s first Christmas tree tradition hints at fast passing time before spring fully arrives.
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Avernus
Vergil
March Hill
Lady Spring
Maine
Dixie
Bennington and region news mix at season's end
A roundup of Bennington events notes religious meetings led by Dr. James Bissett Pratt and college surveys, flood damages, public meetings, and school actions. It also cites historic dates, local arcades, and editorials on communications, public notices, and a memoir fragment about New York’s Algonquin era.
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Bennington College
Robert D. Leigh
James Bissett Pratt
Williams College
Nighttime Gotham Tales of Glamour and Scandal
A rambling reminiscence of a bygone New York era full of literary figures and show business legends. The narrator recalls run-ins with Zelda Fitzgerald, Frank Costello, and Elsa Maxwell, dramatic escapades, subway perils, and chaotic encounters with Winchell, Caruso, and Churchill figures, all set in a vivid, reckless city night.
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Frank Costello
Oscar Hammerstein
Cohan
Broadway
Gotham
Baghdad - On - the
Driving a school bus as population coping
A wry quotation from the Wall Street Journal suggests training future parents as bus drivers to handle population growth, contrasted with a Detroit News jab at tax filing as a dangerous game of chance.
Gulf Oil Is An Indian Giver Says Senator
A Punch cartoon satire depicts Gulf Oil collecting illegal campaign contributions from American politicians for 15 years and demanding repayment. A Gulf collector confronts a senator on Capitol Hill, threatening to cancel funds and implying broad retaliation if returns are not made. The dialogue satirizes influence buying and the politics of campaign finance.
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Fred
Julia
Boston Globe
Gulf Oil Co
Gulf
Washington
Buddy Boy
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Christian Science Publishing Society
Bennington
North Street
Hoosick Falls High School
Cora B. Whitney
William W. Freeman
Freeman, French and Freeman
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YMCA
Hoosick Falls Central School
Cambridge Central School
Boston
John I. Pershing
U.S
Mexico
Pancho Villa
Georgi Malenkov
Josef Stalin
Soviet Union
Japan
Mt. Fuji
Air France
Guadaloupe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Aristotle Onassis
Paris
New York
Old New York
Algonquin
Biltmore Dock
Staten Island
Cole Porter
Delmonico’s
Lillian Russell
Tallulah Bankhead
Henry James
Tallulah
Giants
Henry
Dodgers
Hemingway
James
Costello
Fiorello la Guardia
Europe
Great White Way
Nicky Arnstein
Barbra Streisand
Columbus Avenue
Walter Winchell
Lepke Buchalter
Robert Moses
Calvin Coolidge
Algonquin Round Table
Robert Benchley
Dorothy Parker
Ed Sullivan
Edith Wharton
Thomas E. Dewey
George M. Cohan
Grant
France
Seventh Avenue
Winchell
116Th Street
Diaghilev
Noel Coward
Elsa
Bellevue
Hudson
Enrico Caruso
Spaghetti Caruso
Harold Ross
O. Henry
Ross
Franklin Roosevelt
Eugene O’neill
Ethel Merman
Chekhov
Elsa Maxwell
The
Winston Churchill
Eugene
Ethel
Tverse
North Bennington Road
Bennington, Vermont
Vermont
Savings & Loan Association
Main Street
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Commonwealth Armory
B.U
Nichols
Wall Street Journal
Detroit News
Art Buchwald
Capitol Hill
Senator
Joe Bananas
Oil Company
Pittsburgh
Ware Swan Re
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