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Show THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1976 A PIECE OF SKIN piece of human skin the size of a quarter and only of an inch thick contains a yard of blood vessels, four yards of nerves, up to 1,300 nerve ends, 100 sweat glands, and more than three million cells. GOLDEN HAIR The cornerstone of the Treasury Building in Wash- Thanksgiving's 'Inventor' Might Be Surprised Today It's Thanksgiving again, and Sarah Josepha Buell Hale might have second thoughts about it. It was her idea in the first place, making Thanksgiving an official, nationwide holiday. And it was thanks to her years of badgering governors and finally Abraham Lincoln, that it came to solemn giving of thanks in New World. Jamestown, Virginia, colonists observed the day on Dec. 4., 1619, on the banks of the James River The modern Thanksgiving Thanksgiving or harvest home festivities became an informal autumn custom of the New England colonists. George Washington took to his troops joined Yankee celebrators during the Revolution. And as President, he proclaimed that a thanks1 giving day should be observed Thursday, Nov. 26. be though, today, perhaps not quite what she had in mind. Big Selection seems to be that annual holiday when we pay the sasupreme lute to overeating, when stores are well into their Christmas sales, Of m when television football imposes a trance on all those already stupefied at the dinner table. New Style HIS SUCCESSORS, how-th- e ever, sometimes chose dates JjApril, May and August as Thanksgiving, or. as with Thomas Jefferson, ignored it altogether. ington, D.C., supposedly contains a golden lock of hair from President Jackson's In 1863, Lincoln finally proclaimed the fourth Thursday in November as the nation's annual day of thanks. baby granddaughter, Mary Donelson, who was born in the White House. ."But not Mrs. Hale, idowed writer and author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." She made personal cause. it her s During the Civil War she wrote Lincoln, entreating him to set aside such a day when "enmity and strife can be laid aside, and the nation unite in a common cause." Some Americans even find mm time to give thanks, usually as the family gathers around the groaning board. That's what Mrs. Hale had in mind for the day, giving thanks. GIFT Order now for IV FOR BUT JUST as turkey is the day's traditional attraction, WAS A membership to CR YSTALHOT SPRINGS HEALTH SPA don't wait, this is a limited offer Thanksgiving through the years has been stuffed with commercialism, politics, and indifference to the date, the National Geographic Society says. In 1621, the Pilgrims set the style for future Thanksgivings with their ONE MONTH MEMBERSHIP now-famo- celebration at Plymouth in the Colony of $ Massachusetts. 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