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...since the trouble began, waved a hand at surrounding hills and gullies: "On a farm like this, what could you do with modern machinery? If it's only due to machinery taking over, why won't they sell me gasoline?" Still, McFerren, who runs the Fayette County Civic and Welfare League, grabbed at some splinters of hope. "First," said he, "we've got to get these folks housed and fed, and then we'll start trying to find work for them. There's no way of knowing when that will be. Nobody knows...
...mother that he was consigning his vast memorabilia to its custody; he also requested that he and his wife be buried in Norfolk. The city has big plans for MacArthur. It will renovate its 111-year-old courthouse (gradually to be vacated in favor of a new civic center) at a cost of almost $500,000 as a MacArthur me morial, rename the immediate surroundings MacArthur Square. Into the building will go some 150 chests of MacArthur's personal and military documents, his 123 U.S. and foreign decorations, battle trophies and gifts from the great, and the 126 battle...
...belated victory dance, Illinois' twinkle-toed Governor-elect Otto Kerner, 52, kicked up his heels as if he had just heard the election returns. Democrat Kerner's elfin partners were two kiddies attending a Christmas party of Chicago's Off-the-Street Club, a civic organization that keeps children out of trouble and politicians out of smoke-filled rooms...
...Parents of famous people were often hot partisans of unpopular causes. They were revolutionaries, civic reformers, Zionists, free-soilers, agnostics, abolitionists, objectors to infant damnation. Goertzel. riding his thesis hard, concludes that "the children frequently became eminent by adopting a parental point of view,-by fulfilling in action a parental daydream...
Marcus married a Neiman salesgirl, Sportswear Buyer Mary Cantrell, in 1932. Today they live at No. 1 Nonesuch Road in a modern house jammed with paintings, books and sculpture. A civic booster, he promotes Dallas with almost as much zeal as he does his store, works on everything from the Chamber of Commerce to the Symphony Society. But he likes nothing better than discovering things to sell. Once when a woman asked for a dress in a certain shade of buff yellow she had seen in a painting, Marcus had a fabric dyed to order in New York, made...