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...tobacco and beef cattle, spoon bread and purple, mist-hung hills. Five years later, at the age of 39, he decided "it was now or never." He quit U.P.I., moved his wife and three children to the farm, and took a job writing editorials for the Bristol (Va.) Herald-Courier, the nearest daily paper. A few months later, he learned that some stock was for sale in the Washington County News, the county's leading weekly (circ. 4,000), founded in 1948 by the son of Author Sherwood Anderson. Bowman eagerly went deeper into debt to pick...
Carrot Friends. The other case involved a different kind of mike. In 1961, Frank John Mrkva, State Department visa courier and the son of Czechoslovakian-born parents, met Zdenek Pisk, then a third secretary at the Czech embassy in Washington. Aft er a number of casual conversations with Mrkva (whose surname means "Carrot"), Pisk became confident that Carrot was ready for uprooting. Pisk arranged a private dinner, suggested that Mrkva, now 38, might want to help the Czech Communist cause by doing a little spying. "Knock off the patriotism business," snapped Mrkva. "I'm interested in money." Pisk offered...
...contractor is winding up construction of 140 miles of all-weather roads linking two critical border areas with the main national road system to give the police mobility. In the north, to the same end, the U.S. has built 44 short landing strips, serviced by Helio Courier and Porter STOL planes that can land on less than 200 ft. if need...
...believe Lyndon Johnson is as right as Roosevelt, as timely as Truman, as cautiously correct as Kennedy, and as entitled to Eisenhower's and the nation's support as the Courier-Journal used to say in editorials I wrote...
...There is enough evidence at hand for the American jury to reach a verdict on Viet Nam. The evidence is not just two decades of history but the exposition of that history. The Courier-Journal's Henry Watterson said 'to hell with the Hohenzollerns.' Mark Ethridge and Barry Bingham said in effect 'to hell with Hitler.' I hold it is past time to say to hell with...