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...prevailed in the expansive '30's, and which might well be revived now. David Burns is also a pleasure to watch as Niki Skolianos, formerly of South Chicago, who operates the inn and a poppy plantation on the side. Other praiseworthy performers are William Redfield as Mercury and Barbara Ashley as a Chloe, a Grecian lass. William Eythe and Priscilla Gilette, as the American newlyweds are pleasant but not especially brilliant...
...notice, signed by William H. Ashley, militia general and Missouri businessman, was just about as vague as most other help-wanted ads, but it brought results. Applicants fresh from "the grogshops and other sinks of iniquity in the rough frontier river town of St. Louis" helped fill the quota, and on April 3, 1823, a year after the ad appeared, Ashley's "enterprising young men" hit the trail. The duties of the new hands: to push their wav to the mouth of the Yellowstone River, erect a fortified trading post there and trap beaver in the surrounding country...
...California. Shrewd General Ashley, "the John Jacob Astor of St. Louis," thought he knew a good man when he saw one; but even he did not realize that he had assembled "the most significant group of continental explorers ever brought together." The man who became the group's most outstanding graduate was a 24-year-old New Yorker named Jedediah Strong Smith, an ex-clerk on a Great Lakes freighter who had come to town in time to spot Ashley's ad. Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests...
...took a month of pressure-group tactics by Ashley Weare '50 to bring the millenium. And Juan U. Maegli '50, former chairman of the House Committee, had to consult dining hall officials, who consulted other officials...
...summaries. Emerson (H) defeated Coburn (T), 3-2; Ladd (T) defeated Morris (H) 3-1; Ashley (H) defeated Williams (T), 3-1; Tenney (T) defeated Richardson (H), 3-2; Harding (H) defeated Banter...