Americana

Notes on U.S. customs, habits, manners & morals:

P: The Census Bureau reported that the U.S. had gained approximately 2,279,000 residents in 1946, the greatest one-year population spurt in its history. Estimated total U.S. population: 142,673,000.

P: A jury of eight men and four women in Los Angeles voted to disinherit two Irish setters which had been bequeathed $30,000 by their master. The jury learned that Owner Carleton R. Bainbridge had believed that the dogs could talk, that he had read bedtime stories to them.

P: In Manhattan, Justice Jacob Panken gave Psychiatrist Johann G. Auerbach a savage lecture on something every psychiatrist should know--that crowds and automobile noises "have a disastrous effect on the emotions of children." The psychiatrist and his wife had left their eight-month-old baby daughter in a parked car on noisy 48th Street while they went to a lecture on "The Cultural Importance of the Theater to Our Present Civilization."

P: In Fitzwilliam, N.H., Sheriff Arthur Jennison's lugubrious-looking bloodhound, Queenie, galumphed steadily through the night, led a baffled search party straight to bushes in which its elusive quarry was sitting. The quarry: three-year-old Louis Dunton, who had left home, taken off his clothes and wandered through the woods for six hours.

P: At Corregidor, the Stars & Stripes, which were hauled down and burned just before the surrender to Japan on May 6, 1942, were pulled down again. After more than four decades as a U.S. fortress, the Rock was turned over to the new Philippines Republic.

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