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...cluster of reporters stood behind the big off-white barn one afternoon last week and watched while Irvington Roamiss Pear, a purebred Holstein heifer, got a thorough grooming. While they were watching the ceremonious cleanup, a hired man-or what most of the reporters at first took to be a hired man-ambled up to see what was going on. He was dressed in blue slacks, a blue denim sports shirt, white rubber-soled shoes, and a floppy Panama straw hat with its brim set at a rakish angle. In a quick doubletake, the reporters recognized the nation...
Plus a Waterfall. Last week, when the story of his latest and flashiest fringe benefit broke, Beck bellowed like a bull caught in the barn door. "I had nothing to do with the purchase," he said. "When they wanted to give me a home, I wanted nothing less than what I was living in already. They said, 'Go ahead and buy it. We don't care what it costs...
...Richard J. Babcock, 43, started three regional editions, printing specialized news and information for farmers in all sections of the U.S. Ad revenue climbed from $300,000 in 1935 to nearly $10 million last year; circulation more than doubled in the same time. Now. with Country Gentleman in his barn. Publisher Patterson hopes to apportion the Curtis magazine's circulation to Town and Farm Journal and boost the circulation and ads of both magazines even more...
...soldier often feels a strange disappointment when he sees his first battlefield. A barn still stands with cattle waiting to be fed ; a tree is green and straight against the sky; hollyhocks are in bloom. Later he realizes what has happened to the people...
Professor Charles E. Merriam, a political scientist who wanted to reform Chicago, ran for mayor in 1911 and lost. Years later, he was strolling with his wife Hilda in her home town, Constableville, N.Y., when they passed an old barn. She remarked casually: "My grandfather used to own a brewery in that building.'' The professor, who had been defeated by politicians weaned on beer, all but shouted: "A brewery! If I'd known that, I could have been mayor of Chicago!" This year the professor's son Robert could likewise have used a brewery...