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...Clay County, Ill., on a farm for which the county might have been named, 60-year-old Bunyan Travis lived and labored, sweating in the noonday and sometimes cursing the bread he earned, for Bunyan's acres were scrawny with drought and his back was bad with rheumatism. Finally he got him a cane to hobble around on. Chance came to Farmer Travis last spring when a gang of husky young men from the Southwest put up a derrick on his land and began to drill for oil. On May 23 they brought in an oil well which produced...
...live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks of coal shellacked for paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around, to the wooden fence near the camp of the Bahamians, the barbed wire fence of the Texans, the Paul Bunyan display of the Wisconsin Scouts, the Florida encampment hung with Spanish moss. All day, every day the tent cities echoed with the wrangling of Young America trading what it possessed for something else it wanted...
Honorable Mention in the contest went to Frederick E. Pamp '39 who wrote his essay on John Bunyan's "Grace Abounding," and also to James P. O'Donnell '39, for a paper titled "Dichtung und Waharheit in Shakespere's Sonnets...
Side by side are contemporary editions of Bunyan, Shakespeare, Bacon, Michelangelo, Livy, Nepos, Aristotle, Sophocles, and Harold Gray...
...serious about sport to hoax his public and much too wise to be beguiled by Hollywood hoaxers, wrote a column in which he called Montague one of the world's greatest golfers, no one took him very seriously. When Westbrook Pegler labeled Montague a combination of Paul Bunyan, John Henry, Popeye the Sailor and Ivan Petrovsky Skovar, it gave the story more color than credibility...