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...next round promises to be a long, drawn-out battle in the courts. Two weeks ago, Outagamie County Judge R. Thomas Cane directed the board to fill all present openings with teachers who had been fired, and five were rehired. But the order leaves unsettled both the contract and the rehiring of the others. As the strikers mapped plans last week for mass demonstrations in June, others in Hortonville expressed dismay at what the dispute had done to their once-tranquil community. Said Mrs. Ann Milleren: "Such a hatred has grown. The scars will be a long time healing...
Jack Guy Folk Toys are little constructions of wood, corn cob, and cane which come in little bright boxes, either already assembled or as kits. In the shop, they were stacked up under a couple of large color photos of Jack Guy himself, wearing an outlandish shirt of more colors and materials than Joseph's coat, bibbed over-alls, and an immense sort of Hoss Cartwright style black hat with bead-work band. The hat suggested a renegade Indian trader. Jack Guy's hair is cut rather too neatly for a hill person, but his face is pretty convincingly weathered...
...they seemed to be pushing hardest was called the flipper dinger. It is made of "over 100 years of family tradition, some good native mountain wood, and a great deal of puttin' together time." A flipper-dinger is made of a short length of cane something like an Indian peace pipe with a wire basket instead of a bowl. The basket has two wire rings, one higher than the other. Hanging from one of the rings is a little ball made from the light core of a corn cob, with a wire hook in it. The idea is to gently...
...Playing. Such self-conscious role playing was the very fabric of Hitler's life, says Fest. The book, not surprisingly, often presents the Führer in the ebb and flow of rich personal melodrama. Early on, the reader meets the "idling student, promenading in Linz with his cane and kid gloves," and the proud, self-pitying, angry young would-be artist in Vienna, suing his dealer over an imagined embezzlement. After the abortive beer-hall putsch in Munich in 1923, Hitler scurries to safety-and to despairing Hamletesque thoughts of suicide. After he had won the Reich chancellorship...
Martha Clarke, a retired schoolteacher in the mythical town of Homochitto, Miss., still lives in the family homestead. But now, in her mid-70s, she is almost blind and beginning to turn senile. Picking their way past a Spanish oak tree and a small jungle of cane and Virginia creeper, Martha's nephews and nieces stage a meeting of the clan in the ancestral manse. While she sits in her period rocker, they discuss their Aunt Martha problem as if she were as inanimate as the leather classics in the glass bookcases about them. "Isn't it strange...