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...slums with one seamless narrative. Current trends and ideas are summarized with pithy aphorisms: Exercise-crazed women become "Boys with Breasts" and get-rich-quick schemes induce "The Aha! Phenomenon." Wolfe entertains readers with his keen ear for dialect and penchant for Dickensian names like Armholster, Peepgass and Armentrout. And of course, when it comes to clothes, who but a dandy like Wolfe would note the difference between a twist-weave suit and a hard-finished worsted...
...deer over there and pay you the difference?" The animal in question is a buck, 4 ft. high, with a brown paint job and an impressive rack of gleaming metal antlers. "That'd be fine," says Harper. He calls his sons Doug and Dale and son-in-law Russell Armentrout out of the work shed to reclaim the Virgin Mary and wrestle 300 lbs. of concrete venison onto the truck...
...David P. Armentrout Portland...
...standout. The minute the Charleston Gazette (circ. 86,500) saw the returns, it smelled fraud. Many precincts in the capital's county showed a far heavier vote than could be expected from the size of the registrations. City Editor Harry G. Hoffman set two reporters, Charles R. Armentrout and James A. Hill, to work looking for the buried bodies...
...Gazette was flooded with tips from readers. One woman reported: "I saw votes being paid for in front of me." The paper's day-by-day stories and editorials forced the impaneling of a special grand jury three weeks ago. The first witness: Newsman Armentrout. On the basis of his and Hill's evidence, the grand jury started calling in witnesses, summoned...