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Life was simple and uncomplicated in the dairyland village of Bonduel, Wis., and the oldtimers wanted to keep it that way. They saved their money, got along without movies, debated the state of the world at daily card games in the town's nine taverns. At every spring election since 1936 about 90 of the town's 700 citizens turned out to vote, and re-elected big, square-set John Froelich the village president...
That was all right with everybody but the young bucks of the town, and chief among them was the village president's son Lorenz ("Hot Rod") Froelich. At dinner almost every night, Hot Rod, a big, 24-year-old redhead, would complain to his father that Bonduel was sleeping in a rut while progress passed by. The village board, Hot Rod argued, should wake up, give the kids a roller-skating rink, and bring small industry into Bonduel. Old John Froelich didn't pay too much attention...
...secrets are hard to keep in Bonduel. The oldsters soon realized what was up, and campaigning began in earnest. Hot Rod made a speech: "Some of these Bonduel people must have been born old. All they do is sit on their fannies. Elect us and we'll do something." "These young fellows haven't got enough experience," replied John Froelich. John's wife added her two-cents' worth at the dinner table: "Lorenz, you quit this silly business. You're getting too big for your breeches...
...avoided another battle in her feud with Tennist Helen Hull Jacobs. Said Mrs. Moody: "I am not giving up tennis. But in the future I shall play only in tournaments that fit in well with my work." Up for auction in Denver came the last tawdry possessions of Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby") Doe Tabor, who was frozen to death last year after 35 years of guarding the abandoned Matchless Silver Mine, once worth $1,000,000 to her husband, the late wealthy U. S. Senator Horace Austin Warner ("Haw") Tabor (TIME, March 18, 1935). To an eager crowd were offered...
Sold for $700 at auction in Denver were the trinkets of the late Elizabeth Bonduel McCourt ("Baby Doe") Tabor (TIME, March 18), remnants of a fortune estimated...