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...Hard-bitten Walter G. Pippel is Matanuska Valley's real moneymaker. He grossed $ 11,000 in 1936-37 raising cabbages, tomatoes, turnips, potatoes, now grosses $200 a week. When U. S. colony agents insisted that he sign a purchase contract for his farm-with the reservation that the colony farms remain in the cooperative -stubborn Mr. Pippel balked, refused to sign, hawked his produce at Anchorage. Resigning from the cooperative, Pippel went to court. Last August the case of People v. Pippel was settled out of court. Individualist Pippel agreed to vacate his colony farm and start all over...
Whose War? One year later, General Seishiro Itagaki, arch extremist of the Japanese army, who had become Minister of War, could have claimed that the Japanese had for all practical purposes won their war: they had bitten off the five northern provinces as planned. But the Japanese had found that they were not fighting their war. They were fighting Chiang's war and they had still...
...story's allegorical heroine is an intense, average-looking girl named Mary, daughter of a hard-bitten New England religious fanatic. A literal believer in Christ's Second Coming, in college Mary loses her faith because of a sociology professor, finds college boys a miserable substitute. Likewise synthetic is her marriage to a rich, cultured Jew. Renouncing his comfortable world, she seeks the true faith in vain in a factory, among the Communists, in an affair with a psychiatrist. Salvation comes when she meets David Markand, hero of Author Frank's last novel and Mary...
...What has Alfred M. Landon of Kansas in common with Vincent van Gogh . . .?" "What is it that is first bitten and then bathed...
Infectious Idea. In 1928, popular, respected Dr. Shadid was dissatisfied. He was "bitten by some filtrable virus and turned into a reformer." The farmers of southwestern Oklahoma had no hospital they could afford to use. They paid exorbitant prices for medical care, were often cheated by unscrupulous doctors. Casting about for a solution, Dr. Shadid finally realized that the farmers would have to build their own hospital...