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...found eight other Welshmen who liked to sing with him. Encouraged, he corralled more workers-a millwright, a metal finisher, a carpenter, a stockman. Two hundred sang with him at the Festival last week, a bit self-conscious in their dressed-up clothes but lustily sure of the songs ("Cornfield Melodies," "Galway Piper") that Tom Lewis had taught them...
...letters. He never gives an interview. lives in two rooms over a country club. At 19 he cooked caramels in an alley, peddled them around in Philadelphia, was ruined when a street car smashed his wagon. At 46 he built a $1,000,000 chocolate factory in a Pennsylvania cornfield. As there was no town for miles around, he built one. Today every child knows the name of ruddy, thickset Milton Snavely Hershey of Hershey Chocolate Corp. who, at 77, still walks through his 50 acres of factory floor space, observing, suggesting, nibbling...
...back into Iowa, and down to Missouri. Near Mexico, Mo., a salesman reported that he had been forced at gun's point to push a stalled car in which he was sure sat Floyd. A few miles south 25 peace officers beat their way through a cornfield in pursuit, found nothing but husks. Near Moberly, Mo., a woman let into her farmhouse three men who wanted soap and water, told her one of them had cut his finger. After asking her if she had any weapons to fit .32 or .38 calibre cartridges, they left. An hour later...
...Lindberghs left St. Louis for a jaunt west. At Wichita, Kans. the Colonel ground-looped on landing, cracked a wing-spar. From the factory in St. Louis was rushed another Monocoupe. In it the Lindberghs took off again. Over western Oklahoma the motor quit. The Lindberghs landed in a cornfield. Forced to "lay over" pending repairs, they went to a nearby farm house where Anne Lindbergh donned an apron, helped Mrs. Homer Aitkens cook roast beef & mashed potatoes. Said Farmer Aitkens afterward: "That fellow didn't talk much, but he sure packed away the victuals. . . . He was just...
Next day schools were closed so hundreds of farm children could see the Lindberghs. Mrs. Lindbergh smiled at the visitors. Her husband fled into a cornfield. There he met a rancher, who later told newshawks: "Lindy said he wanted to try his hand at milking so I turned Sweetie over to him. She is gentle. He was pretty good, too. He milked five quarts...