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When one-fifth of the people of the U. S. want to know where there's a covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that...
...ninth-floor rooms to the street. Neighbors who used to complain about his bouncing a medicine ball against the wall, he now outwits by merely tossing it in the air. Under his bed he keeps a rowing machine, used daily. And every morning he stretches himself, "just like a cow or horse." He has survived three wives and still enjoys nightclubs. To young men he advises: "I never have known a man who regretted drinking too little." To old men: "Unlax...
Instead of speaking, Mrs. Roosevelt attended the commencement hop. In a gay print dress and highest spirits, she square-danced, Virginia-reeled and trucked with partners young & old (see cut). The President roamed in his car through the Arthurdale project, stroked the muzzle of the community's prize cow, said: "That's a West Virginia moose...
...jury remembered to ask Mrs. Hebner whose, if not her husband's, was the corpse in her cellar. To this Mrs. Hebner had no answer, but she gave the jury interesting ground for speculation by relating how one day, when she had found Will Hebner beating a cow to death with an iron bar, he had explained that it was the same bar he had used to beat the life out of a St. Louis storekeeper named William Hite on Nov. 10, 1935. It seemed that for Will Hebner a murder was of no more moment than a marriage...
...spare time, he was a full-fledged operator at 14, a combined telegrapher and brakeman on the Santa Fe three years later. For the next 50 years he was shunted from line to line like a boxcar in a busy season. He saw hard living in Kansas cow towns, hard drinking at Northwest division points, hard work everywhere. Last week his son, a brakeman himself, offered Harry French's biography as a typical story of a last-generation American workman...