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...Winnebago who spent five years at Pennsylvania's famed Carlisle Indian School as a second-string quarterback, squat, copper-colored, greying Charlie Cloud is described as one who "thinks in Indian and writes in English." Thumbing a ride weekly from the Indian mission six miles north to the Banner-Journal office, he calmly usurps Editor Harriet Thomas Noble's desk to pencil his weekly stint on scratch paper, after which he generally cozens a taxi fare home from her. His choice of subjects is limitless, ranging from the weather ("The weather is change wind every half...
...quality than last year. The paper shortage had eliminated many accordion-like cardboard creations, and WPB had allowed limited quantities of metal for things like doll carriages. Herds of odd stuffed animals turned up-satin sea lions, kangaroos with detachable offspring and velvet dachshunds in chartreuse, cerise and copper rose. A favorite item for children: secondhand tricycles, to be bought in side streets with the furtive triumph of Central American revolutionists buying old Gatling guns...
Montana. The big-business "twins" that run Montana politics, Montana Power and Anaconda Copper, were behind able incumbent Republican Sam C. Ford, 61, first G.O.P. governor in 20 years. But hard-campaigning, up & coming, six-foot Democrat Leif Erickson, 38, with united labor support, had a chance...
Glamor Goes. The process had already begun. World War II had deglamorized the gypsies, forced them into an activity they had successfully avoided for centuries-work. Under the National Service Act, gypsy poachers now make camouflage nets, gypsy tinkers repair copper vessels in jam factories, knife grinders shape metals, basket weavers wire eiectrical equipment for aircraft. While gypsy women (heretofore the traditional gypsy breadwinners) earn good money in war plants, their work-scorning menfolk bear arms or log wood pulp in Britain's forests...
...answer to the thesis that production tricks learned during war could not be used in peace, economists gave merely a few examples: would U.S. farmers forget the new stunts which had enabled them to raise the greatest U.S. crops in history? Would such basic industries as steel and copper junk their new skills...