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An Angry Hamadryad. He hiked, drove, mushed on snowshoes over his forest, and "learned more about the dynamics of the district than I'd ever known." He learned the need for weeding and care of the timberlands: acres and acres of his domain were useless, some trees as old...
"Daddy," a young voice may pipe in 1965, "what did you do during the cold war?" If Daddy was a U.S. diplomat he may have to answer: "I tried to give away butter and eggs." If the small fry thinks this activity unheroic, he will be wrong. Scores of U.S...
As volume hit 3,000,000 shares or better every day, the floor of the N.Y. Stock Exchange swarmed with traders bidding for stock (see cut). The heavy buying shot up the motors and steels, then spread to the oils, railroads and chemicals. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) leaped 7 points...
In his last year at Texas, Bobby made nearly every All-America team in the country; the pros were waiting for him with open pocketbooks. In those days the newly formed All-America Conference was fighting for its life (it eventually folded in 1949), and competitive bidding gave players a...
Ho Chi Minh sent a golden opium set to the Chinese Nationalist commander and persuaded him that the Viet Minh was the right outfit to keep check on the French. "I love France and French soldiers. You are welcome. You are all heroes," Ho Chi Minh later declared, and the...