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Moscow orders, Russia obeys. With the fear of Dictator Stalin in their hearts, peasants rushed madly from their homes to catch 13,530 sparrows. They caught some 2,000 and caged them in a barn, but hungry local cats crept in and killed 200 sparrows overnight. What, oh what...
...Charles Bannon, 22. Just a year ago he shot and killed A. E. Haven, on whose farm near Schafer, N. Dak. he worked. Then he killed Mrs. Haven and the four Haven children. He buried them in the barn. Not until November was he arrested, when he sold some of the Havens' hogs. In December he confessed his crimes. Last week he had been taken from a distant jail back to Schafer for trial...
Whether or not Farmer W. Parker Perry of Somerset, N. J. ever read of Icarus * is not a matter of record. But it is recorded that seven years ago Farmer Perry, then 26, fashioned himself a pair of wings of wood & cotton, climbed to the top of his barn, jumped. Not badly hurt, he tried another "flight," was not badly hurt. Picking himself up the second time, Farmer Perry announced with evident satisfaction: "I didn't hit as hard as if I hadn't had the wings." But he turned to less violent experiments. From hangar to hangar...
This evening the center of attention for Yale men will be in Montclair, New Jersey, where the sons of Eli are to hold their annual "win, lose, or draw" barn party. The meeting this year is of interest to the public as well, because retiring Coach Bill Roper of Princeton will be the guest of honor. By inviting Mr. Roper to attend this hitherto exclusively Yale gathering, the New Haven graduates not only express their own admiration for their guest but also give evidence of the fine sportsmanship that intercollegiate rivalry can create...
Unlike most novels by young men, The Big Barn is solid, careful, mature. Like Author Edmonds' first book it tells of a countryside he knows but of a time long before he was born...