Boyle Reflects on a Decade of Column Writing and Small Minds
In Sicily during World War II Hal Boyle recalls a shocking cable ordering daily human interest work and muses on 10 years and 2,800 columns from 55 countries. He notes writing is tough but the human heart is the same everywhere and warns against becoming a stuffed shirt pundit.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Sicily
Salerno
Italy
Don Marquis
Ernie Pyle
Marquis
Pyle
New York Stock Exchange Seat Seen as Cheap Insurance
The NYSE membership, priced around $43,000, functions as a form of life insurance with a $20,000 estate payout upon a member's death and a $15.02 annual gratuity fund assessment. There are 1,373 memberships, 20 in deceased members’ names, with 17 deaths this year.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Exchange
Internal Revenue Bureau
Stock Exchange
SEC
Kurtin
Babson
Alleghany Corp
Leopold Dias Silberstein
Pennsylvania Coal and Coke
Banff Camp Teaches Self-Reliance For Cadets
About 150 teenage cadets attend the Banff National Camp in Alberta for a rugged training program. Insects, bears, wolves, and the lynx share the terrain but the biggest foe is the mosquitos, whose bites drive campers to distraction. E. R. Hall notes wolves rarely attack humans and jokes bears fear cadets more than vice versa.
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Banff
Alta
Banff National Camp
Canada
E. R. Hall
Hall
Turkey to Build Bosphorus Bridge and Istanbul Subway
The Turkish government will build a suspension bridge across the Straits of Bosphorus and construct a subway in Istanbul. Several international construction firms have been invited to study the project.
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Istanbul
Straits of Bosphorus
Europe
Asia
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