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...Kentucky's Clay County Walter Webb came to be considered almost immortal until vengeance drew a good bead on him this month and he turned out to be only human. Last week 900 mourners climbed up the jagged dirt road-really a dry creek-bed-to his farm for the burial. "There was tears shed from every, eye," said his daughter Zola. "It was the most hurt crowd I ever saw." Three ministers invoked blessings and golden chrysanthemums were piled high on the grave. Then the kinfolk and the curious drifted away, leaving Widow Doric Webb and the five...
Died. Kokichi Mikimoto, 95, onetime noodle merchant who became the world's largest producer of cultured pearls; of a kidney ailment; in Nagoya, Japan. Perfecting by trial and error a method of seeding oysters known since the 13th century (a fleck of sand or a tiny bead is forced into the oyster, which seeks to counteract the irritant by coating it with layer upon layer of pearl-making nacre), spry, fun-loving Mikimoto (who entertained his employees with feats of magic and parasol-twirling) scandalized Paris in 1913, when he first brought his quarter-price pearls to the international...
...Willie and the Giants looked over their shoulder and saw a stranger scrambling for second place: the Milwaukee Braves. Two months ago the Braves had been out of sight, 15 games back. Then, winning three out of every four games, they leapfrogged over the aging Dodgers and drew a bead on the Giants. The Braves have a tight infield, good pitching, and a magician of their own-former Giant Bobby Thomson, who hit baseball's most famed home run: a ninthinning playoff blast against the Dodgers to win the 1951 pennant for New York. At week...
Martin does not pretend to be a political philosopher. His conservatism is more a matter of temperament than of ideology. Day by day he deals with specific problems through the party machinery of representative government, and he is rarely tempted to bead any series of his opinions or decisions on a string of generalization. In a speech last year, he summed up his deep-grained pragmatic approach. Said Speaker Martin: "We [Republicans] are not reformers, not do-gooders, not theorists, not the advocates of any alien philosophies or political dipsy-doo. We are just practical Americans, trying...
Even hunting, though, he lets his good nature control the trigger. When he first got a good bead on a deer, he just "stood and watched her go." Because--whether it is amoebae, deer, trout, or Leverett men--Professor Hoadley enjoys living organisms...