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...many of his generation, Henry Wallace was the Paul Bunyan of his age. Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, a fellow New Dealer, said: "Every time you ride or fly over this country and see the condition of the land-the plowed contours, the bulging granaries, the neat, productive look-you think of Henry Wallace. He saved the land and then made it possible for this nation to feed the whole world...
...tries to squeeze in at least an hour with the children. Sometimes he frolics with them, and on special occasions performs his "magic" stunt of pulling a nickel out of an ear or a nose. More often he reads to them; he has just finished the legend of Paul Bunyan for six-year-old Cope (named after the Marshall publisher...
Northern Minnesota's lake-strewn hills are Paul Bunyan country. Their open-pit iron mines were originally scooped, as all followers of legend know, to provide suitable shoes for Babe, Bunyan's Big Blue Ox. In recent years, another Bunyan, or another Babe, seemed needed to save Minnesota's fading mining industry. After a century of use, the 110-mile, Z-shaped Mesabi Range (Chippewa Indian for "sleeping giant") began running out of the rich ore that once was the base for 60% of all U.S. iron and steel production. The grey taconite rock in which...
...successful because it is a sly parody of his boyishness. His books are a tall tale told at his own expense, and always at a decent remove from the truth. Duluoz-Kerouac fornicates, hops a freight, smokes pot, drinks a quart, sleeps unscathed. He is a bumbling Paul Bunyan working with blue bull...
...regular, short Anglican funeral service proceeded, the first hymn to be sung was John Bunyan...