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...apparently never occurred to Isaac, sexagenarian son of Abraham, that Rebekah, big with twins after 20 years' barrenness, might have half betrayed him when she conceived shaggy, ruddy Esau and sleek, swarthy Jacob. Wiser in rustic folkways, Ewald Peddie, Yankton. S. Dak. farmer, taxed his wife with infidelity when she bore him twin sons who were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally...
...Grinnell College. When he returned to farming it was as an owner. But every time he thought of the newspaper business his left eye twitched with excitement (a habit he still retains) and finally he got a partner to manage his Iowa farm and went to Redfield, S. Dak. (pop. 2,664) to edit a newspaper. At 30 he was made editor and manager of the influential Montana Farmer at Great Falls...
Variety. Gene Vidal, a onetime Army flyer who looks like an Indian, was born 38 years ago in Madison, S. Dak. His father, a railway engineer, sent him to the State university to study engineering. Though physically lazy, brawny Gene Vidal became a crack athlete, won letters in football, baseball, basketball, track. Entering West Point in 1916 he won still greater kudos. Coaches' fight talks bored him. Once, during time-out in the middle of a furious Army-Navy game, he shocked his teammates by calmly asking where the football dinner was to be held that night. But sport...
...vantage points as Table Mountain, Calif.; Mt. Montezuma, Chile; Mount St. Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula. With the help of a "brass brain" (a periodometer or mechanical calculator) which he invented to co-ordinate chaotic masses of data, he delved into the temperature and precipitation records of Bismarck, N. Dak., far back into the last century. In them he looked for cycles of 22 years, because that length of time represents two eleven-year sunspot cycles, or one complete magnetic cycle. He found something like the weather cycle he was seeking, but quickly saw that it was of 23 years...
...John McDowell, one-armed moderator of the Presbyterian Church, has been making a moderatorial tour of the Northwest. Fortnight ago when he reached Aberdeen, S. Dak. he beheld with pleasure the following notice in the Aberdeen Evening News...