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...Middle East. Buzzed by a swarm of Democrats headed by Arkansas' William Fulbright, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and Oregon's Wayne Morse, Dulles said sharply that the Middle Eastern situation is the most dangerous that the U.S. has encountered in ten years. When North Dakota's Republican Bill Langer asked whether the Eisenhower plan would increase the chances of war, Dulles replied categorically: ' would say that if this resolution passes, I think there is little likelihood; but if it does not pass, I think there is a great likelihood...
Nobody has ever seriously disputed the right of North Dakota to make a present to the entertainment world of bubbly Bandleader Lawrence ("Champagne Music") Welk. Lawrence Welk was merely born in Strasburg, North Dakota, and few at the time ever thought that he would grow up to intoxicate millions of music lovers with champagne music. As it turned out, North Dakota's Welk became an answer to Wisconsin's Liberace. But, after Lawrence Welk, wondered many a North Dakotan, what...
...perplexing question. North Dakota's boosters, faced with a continuing decline of population (from 1930's 681,000 to 1950's 620,000) and an apparent lack of interest on the part of industry to make its home in North Dakota, tried to find out what was wrong with the state. It was not Lawrence Welk's fault. As a matter of fact, Welk has seldom missed a chance to give the old homestead a warm plug on his TV show. It was just that so many people on the outside have the ridiculous idea that...
Discussing this state of affairs with a legislative committee, one Homer Ludwick, executive secretary of the Greater North Dakota Association, made his point by exhibiting a children's jigsaw-puzzle map of the U.S. Sure enough, the symbols on the North Dakota puzzle piece were a spear of grain and a thermometer showing a low of- 45°. Furthermore, people on the outside were always talking about a "blizzard sweeping out of North Dakota." Something, Ludwick demanded, has got to be done to counter all this bad publicity...
...athlete (he tried out for all the varsity teams at Syracuse University, finally made the crew as substitute coxswain) and impassioned sports buff, who founded the Helms Athletic Foundation in 1936, built a $350,000 museum in 1948 to enshrine relics of sports heroes (e.g., the shoes worn by Dakota Wesleyan's, Mark Payne in 1915 when he booted his record 63-yd. dropkick); of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Sports Fan Helms acquired his awe of athletes watching his uncle, oldtime major-league Outfielder William E. ("Dummy'') Hoy, make circus catches, spent much of his time...