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...Atlanta, Ga. and Dallas, Tex., accounting for less than one percent of the U. S. book business between them, the best-seller was Gwen Bristow's romantic Southern novel, The Handsome Road, although The Importance of Living sold better at the new five-story Cokesbury Book Store in Dallas than it did in Washington and Cleveland stores...
...When his father and mother died in 1936, 20-year-old Robert Lee Bristow of Saluda, Va., inherited a share in a down-at-heel farm, with a $2,431 mortgage, 203 acres of depleted soil and almost no equipment. He persuaded his three brothers and two sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors...
Last week, Farmer Bristow received something that will help him to realize his expectations: At Kansas City, Mo. where 8,000 of the 143,000 U. S. members of the Future Farmers of America gathered to attend their tenth annual convention, biggest excitement of the week was announcing the name of the Star Farmer of America, selected from F. F. A. rolls three weeks ago by a committee of three headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes. Star Farmer of America was Robert Lee Bristow. With the honor went a $500 prize...
...Author. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson made many a reader weep with his bestseller, If Winter Comes. Four years ago he married Una Rosamond Bristow-Gapper, who wrote to him admiringly on a postcard. Simon is their only child. Other books: This Freedom, One Increasing Purpose, The Uncertain Trumpet, The Clean Heart, The Happy Warrior...
...Considering everything," said Mr. Bristow, "they treated me pretty fair. What I missed most was a chaw of tobacco. I had plenty to eat except when the Federal troops got too close, then we all had nothing but bread and water. Wild turkeys were roosting all around us but nobody dared shoot at them for fear the Federals would hear. My closest escape was one night when five of the bandits got drunk and wanted to hang me for the hell of it. Cruz Delgado finally talked them out of it. I taught those fellows to play poker. Some...