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...much sweet corn and too many sweet potatoes the night before. His wife popped anxiously into the room, carrying a tray; Faubus peered distastefully at the stewed chicken and rice. "Put that rice in a bowl," snapped he, "so I can put some milk on it." But this, protested Alta Faubus, was what the doctor had ordered. "I don't care!" cried Faubus. "I won't eat it! If you won't get me a bowl of rice and milk, I'll go get it myself." Alta Faubus shrugged, left, returned with the rice and milk...
...muskrat to help his family scratch out a living from their hill farm, and trudged five miles a day to a one-room country school. Eager for book learning, he finally managed to graduate from Huntsville High School when he was 24, three years after he married plain, amiable Alta Haskins. In 1935 he enrolled at the now-defunct Commonwealth College, a Communist-front school at Mena (pop. 4,500) in the western part of the state. He stayed only a few weeks-long enough, he said later, to get a hold on Commonwealth's slant. It was also...
Headline of the Week In the Calgary Alta. Herald NEWFOUNDLAND DEBT CAUSED BY POVERTY
Heading the invasion were the Big Three leaders of Social Credit: Alta.. leader of the party's 15 M.P.s (all from Alberta or British Columbia) in the last House of Commons...
...population of fast-growing Calgary (196,000),. Alta. took a noticeable rise last week with the arrival of TIME's Ed Ogle, his wife Ruth Margaret (known as RM) and five of their seven children. Ogle is opening TIME's first news bureau in western Canada as part of an expansion of our coverage of Canada and the U.S. Replacing Ogle in Denver is Barron Beshoar, former Los Angeles bureau chief. Beshoar's successor in Los Angeles is Frank McCulloch, former Dallas bureau chief, whose most recent assignment has been as a National Affairs writer...