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Like a shotgun blast in a cornfield, Harry Truman's crack about too many "Byrds in the Congress" set off indignant flappings and cawings over Capitol Hill. The old cry of "purge" rang through its tiled corridors. The President was annoyed that the crack got out; he hadn't meant his caller (A.V.C. Chairman Gil Harrison) to repeat it. At his news conference he refused to amplify the remark, declared that he was not interested in purges. The people, he said tartly, would take care of that...
Niebel refused. The pair ordered the big farmer and the two white-faced women outside and into the car, told them to take off their clothes. The automobile moved off through the darkness, finally pulled up beside a cornfield. Daniels forced the Niebels to walk out among the rustling stalks. "Kneel down," he ordered. They knelt-naked, shivering, sick with terror. West shot Mrs. Niebel in the stomach. His pistol jammed. Daniels shot her in the head. He fired twice more, and Niebel and his daughter toppled over, dying. The two gunmen walked back to their car and drove away...
...Arkansas cornfield in 1919, Evangelist John Elward Brown planted an interdenominational college to spread his gospel of "God, honest toil and motherhood." Last week, at 69, President John Brown of John Brown University decided that the Lord needed him back on the evangelist's trail. He turned over his chair to son John Elward Jr., a J.B.U. graduate ('42) and ex-Navy officer. That made "Beddie" Brown, at 26, probably the youngest university head...
...touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes. A girl should never comb her hair at night, for this will "lower a gal's nature." On the last night of April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...
...time Paricutin has been erupting for a thousand years, it, too, may have collected its gaudy legends. Until the legends bloom, it will have only the true miracle-tale: the story of an Indian peasant who tilled his cornfield and one day grew a tall volcano...