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Pretty Betsy Canning was a long time finding out that Husband Alec was not the man she, thought she married. For 15 years she had been the wife of an obscure civil servant who seemed as pleased as she was with their three children, a tasteful circle of friends as decently well off as themselves. Suddenly, after Alec's and Johnnie Graham's amateur operetta had made a sensation, she found herself a back number entertaining mobs of Alec's "Yahoo" theatrical acquaintances. He began living in a "genial, gregarious, alcoholic mist" and now declared that their...
...that they could father one child. The favored, select, few "stirps" took the cream. Work was planned collectively, law & order in the same way. Noting the failure of similar groups throughout the country, to make ends meet by straight farming, Noyes and his shrewd, God-fearing colleagues turned to canning fruits and vegetables, manufactured the world-famed Newhouse steel trap, made silk, plated silverware, did a big tourist trade in vegetable dinners...
...years had Dr. Graeme Alexander Canning, a professor of Zoology at the University of Tennessee, fired a gun, but when he heard about the wild boar hunt being planned in his State's Cherokee National Forest (TIME, Nov. 16), his sporting blood was stirred. He paid his $5 fee for ambulance service, borrowed a rifle, set out one morning last week with the first batch of 30 hunters. His guide was an oldtime woodsman named Homer Bryson. The hunt for the savage, sharp-tusked progeny of Russian boars imported some three decades ago had been made doubly dangerous...
When the 30 hunters straggled back to their rustic hotel that evening, only Professor Canning had bagged a boar. He told his story with becoming modesty: "Bryson saw the tracks and said, 'Get in front.' About that time he pointed out two boars in a briar patch. I tried to shoot the big one, but I started shaking and my eyes watered until I couldn't see. When I got control of myself the big one was gone. I shot at the smaller one and he went down. We got close and had to shoot three more...
...last January the placid sardine-canning village of Eastport on Cobscook Bay was a booming town. Some 5,000 Maine unemployed were working day & night on the project. Three labor camps had been established. On Moose Island, Quoddy Village with 130 colonial houses had been built, with dormitories for both sexes of dam-builders, with grandfather clocks, loveseats, early colonial furniture and $16,000-houses for executives...