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Fitting Reward. In St. Louis, Earl ("Tiny") Bechtold won first place in a contest at Barney's Army Store for the man with the biggest waistline (62½ inches), claimed his prize: a pair of tailored slacks...
...remarkably precise memory of Paris and northeastern Missouri in the good old days. In successive columns, Blanton revisited his one-room rural schoolhouse (the teachers are better-schooled, nowadays), his aunt's funeral (no flowers, but plenty of lugubrious singing), a riotous Democratic political rally (music by Barney's Band, composed exclusively of Republicans) and a bucket-brigade fire...
...legend at the Nebraska State Teachers College at Peru (enrollment 400) that a student could set his watch by the time when 54-year-old Professor Barney K. Baker started off for his office each morning and started home each night. He was a stooped and moody man who day after day did much the same thing, and year after year gave much the same psychology lectures. Students thought him an odd-sort, difficult to approach, and no man for after-class discussions. In all his 24 years on the campus, he had never made a close friend...
...night last week a disgruntled movie fan received a soothing visit from the U.S. cinema's highest brass. Shepherded by Eric Johnston, their official spokesman, such bigwigs as Loew's Nicholas M. Schenck, 20th Century-Fox's Spyros P. Skouras and Paramount's Barney Balaban gathered in Washington for the occasion. The fan: Colorado's Democratic Senator Ed C. Johnson, author of a bill to clean up Hollywood morals through federal licensing of movie players and producers (TIME, March...
Brooklyn (Barney) 3, Pittsburgh...