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...During 21 years of scrabbling for a living in the rough, picturesque Black Hills of South Dakota, Negro Rancher Roland Kercheval and his wife Beatrice have "never met" Jim Crow. Kercheval, in fact, is considered to be of pioneer stock-his grandmother was General George Custer's cook at Fort Dodge, Kans.; his father came to the Black Hills in the gold rush of '76. His three children have won innumerable ribbons in the Pilger Valley Gophers 4-H club, and the two oldest are noted locally for their musical talent. This year, nevertheless, his wife began urging...
...will be a team season this year, and Barnaby thinks he has as much potential strength as any other coach. "We don't have any great to crow about, but we may surprise. We could beat any major opponent...
National Distillers has found no revolutionary way of extracting such whiskies as Old Taylor, Old Grand-Dad and Old Crow, or any of the company's 55 other liquor brands, from natural gas. But National's President John Edward Bierwirth does think he has found a way to make National grow faster by expanding outside of the liquor business. In the four years since Bierwirth became president, National has put $82 million into the chemical industry. The Tuscola petrochemical plant, owned jointly with Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co., is its biggest chemical investment to date. From natural...
...several papers even ran editorials about it. A reporter from the Christian Science Monitor called, Little said, explained that the paper was amused by the letter, but "you know we can't mention liquor in the paper." Graciously, Little told him to take out the reference to Old Crow (the Monitor did, ran the letter in one edition). Readers were equally responsive. In Little's mail came three live crows and a crow whistle from a Pennsylvania editor, who suggested Little might use it to catch some live birds and study their longevity at first hand...
Last week Pressagent Little dispatched a second letter begging editors to ask readers to stop sending him crows. Emboldened by his first success, this time he managed to mention Old Crow not once but twice, has already got it printed in several newspapers...