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...Brier Patch. Granny has built herself a comfortable house, with a guest room that is almost always occupied by a visiting missionary, and a kitchen that seems crowded day and night by neighbors. She refuses all offers of a vacation in the U.S. simply because she is afraid something will prevent her from getting back...
...feel just like Brer Rabbit when he reared back in the brier patch. I'm just where I want to be," she explains. "I don't know a woman in the U.S. I'd want to change places with...
...rival Greenbrier. spotted Snead. For $45 a month, room & board, he lured Sam across the mountains to the Greenbrier. (With the exception of one year at Shawnee-on-Delaware and the 2½ wartime years he spent in the Navy, Sam has been headquartered at the Green-brier.) Says Martin, who has a native Scot's canny eye for a top golfer; "That swing of Sam's caused me to predict in 1936 that he would break 60 on a regulation 18-hole golf course." Breaking 60 in regulation golf is the rough equivalent of running the four...
Dwight Eisenhower had hardly taken office ten months ago when he faced the first test of his "trade not aid" policy. On his desk was a recommendation from the Tariff Commission that he boost the import duty on low-priced brier pipes. Eisenhower, wanting more time and information, sent the recommendation back to the commission for further study. Last week he turned down the proposal...
...true, said Ike, that the U.S. brier pipe industry is in a slump. Sales of pipes have dropped from 20.7 million in 1948 to 14 million, and employment and production are down. But the slump was not caused by foreign imports; they have increased by only 2,000,000. Said the President: "It seems apparent that the major part of this loss has been due to decline in consumer demand . . . In recent years, there has been a clear and sharp decrease in pipe-smoking in this country...