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...Burlington, Vt., Governor Ernest W. Gibson, a city fellow, bravely entered a cow-milking contest, labored before 5,000 spectators, came out third & last. The winner, who milked with one hand, could show a half-pail. The Governor's two-handed take: two cups...
...Crystal Room of Washington's Burlington Hotel, two exiled agrarian leaders from Russian satellite states faced the press last week. "I hope," said Bulgarian Peasant Leader Georgi M. Dimitroff,* "that I speak better English than Stalin speaks democracy...
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...Downers Grove, Ill., the Burlington Railroad's Twin City Zephyr hit a twelve-ton grader which, seconds before, had fallen from a flat car on a westbound freight. The engine and all seven cars were derailed. Two cars smashed into the Downers Grove station. Two died; 36 were injured...
...fellow-artist believes that she was a genius. Wrote her brother, Augustus John, in Britain's Burlington Magazine: "Few on meeting this retiring person in black, with her tiny hands and feet, a soft, almost inaudible voice, and delicate Pembrokeshire accent, would' have guessed that here was the greatest woman artist of her age, or, as I think, of any other...