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...voted for Boulder Dam agricultural supports, and many another project that had no particular connection with the parochial interests of South Boston. Yet McCormack is an oldfashioned, frock-coat liberal, and a vastly different breed from the young, grey-flannel liberals who man the New Frontier. McCormack's liberalism is instinctive and emotional, culled from personal experience as a member of the "deserving poor." He has little use for the liberalism derived largely from books and faculty-club discussions. Such House liberals as Missouri's Richard Boi ling and New Jersey's Frank Thompson regard McCormack...
Rigged Races. Most of the racing buffs who come to tiny (pop. 5,000) Charles Town are the same breed-refugees from the big-city race tracks of the North. They travel to West Virginia because New York and Maryland tracks are closed, because Florida is too expensive and too far away. Explains one hardbitten railbird: "Charles Town is the only wheel in town...
These people were birders-a flinty-eyed, cold-tailed breed whose normal habitat covers just about every square mile of land in the U.S. They nest and feed very much as humans do, but at around the turn of the calendar every winter, they roost in icy swamps, deep forests, river and creek shores, arriving there usually in predawn darkness, armed with cameras, binoculars, telescopes, field guides and silence. They are a kind of rara avis whose purpose it is to count birds and species of birds, with the emphasis, of course, on the rara avis...
...already something of an anachronism. Vaughan writes "paragraphs" for the Kansas City, Mo.. Star (circ. 337,482); he practices a journalistic style so obscure that no one knows who invented it. So rare is the professional paragrapher that Vaughan is occasionally credited with being the last of the breed. He is not. But he is probably the best of a tiny handful of newsmen-among them the Cowles papers' Fletcher Knebel and Hearst's Bugs Baer-who still work at the art of polishing a line or two of type until it gleams...
...Louisville, Ky., editor named George D. Prentice. In the mid-19th century Prentice honed his paragraphs into needles to puncture rival editors. In his hands and others, the paragraph took on the quality of wit and humor that characterize it still. One of the best of the later breed was the Indianapolis' News's late, famed Frank McKinney ("Kin") Hubbard, who, as Abe Martin, turned out paragraphs by the thousands. "I think some folks are foolish." wrote Kin Hubbard. "to pay what it costs to live...