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Nottingham's famed Goose Fair, a combination of autumn market, circus and racetrack, left the happiest childhood impression on Laura, had much to do with her delighted discovery of circus subjects soon after the War. She traveled with circuses, became the firm friend of England's late great clown, Whimsical Walker, and a dappled grey circus horse named Hassan, both of whom she repeatedly painted. Of the circus she says: "I love the freedom of it all. . . . The flapping of canvas is like the sound of gunshot- there's nothing in the world to compare with...
...more aware of the inadequacy of NYA than Aubrey Williams. A lanky, kindly Alabaman, Director Williams believes the plight of U. S. youth will not brighten without undefined "changes in the economic structure." In Manhattan last autumn he declared that NYA had "gotten off to a very bad start." that he did not know what to do about it (TIME, Oct. 28). Giving New York's NYA a second start last week at the rate of $4,000,000 a year. Director Williams gloomily observed...
...farms mainly serve as meat factories. Last week the beef cattle situation, though it made no great headlines, was causing the Department of Agriculture its principal worry. Throughout the stricken cattle country water holes and ponds had dried into cakey mud. Unless farmers could raise a bumper autumn crop of forage, which seemed unlikely, cattle would die by droves this winter. One of the states hardest hit by the drought of 1934, which reduced the total U.S. cattle herd some 9,000,000 head below normal, was North Dakota, which lost, either by forced slaughter or shipping...
...fact that two-thirds of Britain's boasted "Great North Road" from London to Scotland is too narrow for two lanes of traffic. Hundreds of millions must be spent, but for a starter some $25,000,000 is to put 20,000 road workmen into jobs by next autumn...
...supper with her father; 4) tossed snowballs with her father; 5) rode horseback with her father; 6) walked out on a jutting mountain ledge with her father. With quiet, handsome Mrs. Theo Cobb Landon fully occupied by her bouncing babies, Nancy Jo and Jack, it was plain that by autumn Peggy Anne Landon's face would be even more familiar to the U. S. public than Daughter Anna Roosevelt Dall's became in the summer...