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Miss Addie Sullivan is the daughter of a hill farmer too old to work his Ozark Mountain farm. In the morning she makes breakfast for her father, works at some of her daily barn, chicken-run, and truck-garden chores before walking a quarter of a mile to the Calamine, Ark. frame school where she teaches all eight elementary grades. The school has no electric light (the nearest power line is eight miles away), no running water...
...Diddle Diddle. In Perry, Okla., a 1,000-lb. bull belonging to Henry Gengler broke out of his pen, struggled onto the roof of the barn, climbed to the ridgepole, coasted down the other side, jumped 16 feet, cracked several ribs, knocked himself...
...tombstones in wood, but he got angry when asked to inscribe "Safe in Heaven" over the tomb of the children's pet jackrabbit. Children goggled and thrilled when Uncle Jimbilly casually remarked that he would cut off their ears, skin them alive and nail their skins to the barn door...
Crerar's Mind. Last Aug. 7, the eve of the Canadians' push on Falaise, in a sunlight-flooded barn, correspondents in France took the measure of Henry Crerar as a soldier. Wearing freshly shined boots and talking like a military-school professor, Crerar gave them a briefing which turned out to be a brilliant, complex, minutely detailed analysis of the coming operation. Said Crerar: "Tomorrow . . . may be another historic day in the military annals of Canada." The newsmen agreed that his briefing was an extraordinary performance. "That man," said one, "has a department store mind on a Napoleonic...
...GOOD RED BARN PAINT...