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Little Rock, Ark...
...knife, that was settled when my book Bowie Knife was published. A monument was raised to the inventor, James Black, more than half a century ago. The ashes of his old blacksmith shop, where he produced the knife, are covered by this monument in the town of Washington, Ark., on the old Spanish Trail. Past this shop ran the footpath trod by every emigrant who went to Texas and every murderer who was chased back . . . More murders were committed between Washington and the Cross Timbers than in any other spot of similar size in the U.S. in the early days...
...term he has been there, the 15 girls in his class have gradually become accustomed to him. Before each lecture, he carefully reviews his notes, then launches into a lighthearted dissertation on anything from "Noah's Ark" (because it happens to be raining outside) to "Eye Shadow" (i.e., the cosmetics of ancient Egypt). Recently, he recommended that his students go to see the movie, The Egyptian, as "an illuminating pictorial explanation of the period we are discussing." Thereupon, he swung around to the blackboard, jotted down the time of every showing...
...issue was a section of the TVA appropriation that would have 1) cut off the main electrical-transmission artery of the privately owned $107 million Dixon-Yates power plant at West Memphis, Ark., and 2) extended the power of the Government-owned Tennessee Valley Authority by building a rival, $100 million power plant near South Fulton, Tenn...
...Abner, was named an executive assistant in Houston's Continental Oil Co. Lauck, longtime cattle raiser (on his 143,000-acre Nevada ranch) and veteran of a score of radio years, was a businessman (manager of the Citizen's Finance Corp. of Mena, Ark.) before he turned to radio. Continental President L. F. McCollum said that while Lauck will have administrative duties with the company, he will also "be available as an after-dinner speaker and for other community gatherings...