Word: ark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian, he made up his mind to get an education and become a minister. At first his favorite theme was "Eternity-where will you spend it?" But the Depression got him interested in other themes, and in the mid '30s he was fired from his pulpit in Paris, Ark. (pop. 3,731) as too radical...
Other newspapers using their own sources were less conservative. The Little Rock, Ark. "Gazette" was critical of Kamin throughout most of its story, without printing any of his explanatory statements. The Chicago "Tribune," using its private wire, came up with a story which could have appeared in the New York "Daily News." The Detroit "Free Press," listening in on the same line, ran a much more conventional account...
Died. John Daniel Rust, 61, onetime migrant worker who, with his brother Mack, devised the first successful mechanical cotton picker (1927); of a heart attack; in Pine Bluff, Ark. When Inventor Rust demonstrated his machine (which did the work of 50 to 100 field hands) in 1936, depression-weary Southerners feared it would cause unemployment, refused to use it on a large scale. Undaunted, Rust kept improving his machine, in 1949 put it into mass production, soon harvested a long-awaited fortune...
After some four years of armed truce, the enemy camps of Winthrop Rockefeller, who is holed up on his big, new farm near Little Rock, Ark., and his estranged wife, Barbara Sears ("Bobo") Rockefeller, who is holed up in their Park Avenue penthouse apartment in Manhattan, fired major salvos at each other. Winthrop's lawyer led off by announcing that Bobo had upped her "insatiable" settlement demands from $5, $500,000 to $10,000,000. Countered Bobo, through a friend: Nonsense. The settlement offer which Winthrop made last October and she returned for "consideration of new terms not involving...
...career of Bill Glasgow, reporter, a native of Warren, Ark., began at Hendrix College, Conway, Ark. As he recalls it: "I'm still baffled at what prompted me to get into this business, although I well remember when it happened. It was one day in the fall of 1933. The editor of the college paper issued a call for reporter candidates. Though I had never shown any interest in news beyond reading it, I suddenly found myself applying and being told that since I had no experience I would have to submit samples of my work...