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...American states. Teachers, merchants, veterinarians and mechanics from the small towns link the farmers and help orchestrate community life. For the moment, some of the small towns are in more distress than the farmers. The Government provides no subsidy for grocers and drygoods merchants. Publisher Alan Smith, of Mount Ayr, Iowa, (pop. 1,900) used to run two-thirds of a page of delinquent taxes in his Record-News every year. Now he runs six or eight pages. How long before his Ringgold County must yield on the quality of its schools and public services? Not yet, he insists. Adversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Harvest | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

...will be allowed to write anything but sequels to Porky 's remains an open question. An altogether different scenario suggests itself: DISSOLVE TO AMBITIOUS YOUNG WRITER seated before TV console, his face bathed in flickering greenish light. Suddenly he smacks his forehead with the heel of his hand. AYR (excitedly): Why did I waste my childhood on words? Space Invaders, hah! Pac-Man, hah! At last I have programmed the game that will make millions and millions and . . . - By Paul Gray

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Touring Cloud-Cuckoo-Land | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...face and Bill's pad to get a sense of what was going on." Finally the six were chosen: Remak Ramsay to play the stuffy lawyer and Linda Atkinson for his wife, who always had a cause like saving Grand Central Terminal from the developers; Michael Ayr as the unbusinesslike architect and Jill Eikenberry as his aristocratic Italian wife; Luis Avalos for a comical Latin bartender and Evelyn Mercado as the maid he lusted after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Long Road to Broadway | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

Countess of Ayr-the public official in charge of county surveys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Greyed Eel to Be Said | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

...course designed and owned by Comedian Joe Cook. Though the majority of golfers have never made a hole-in-one, Tom Washington, professional at the Monomonock Golf Club at Caldwell, N. J. has made 23. One G. Barnard, at the Prestwick St. Cuthbert's Course at Ayr, Scotland, made five holes-in-one between August 1929 and June 1930. Most holes-in-one are made by indifferent golfers assisted greatly by good fortune. Most expert golfers have made one or more holes-in-one. Robert Tyre Jones Jr. has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

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