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...stationed in El Dorado, Ark., recruiting women specifically for the Army Air Forces. . . . From my experience . . . and from the experience of recruiters all over the U.S., I agree with you that 'the U.S.'s young women are not listening...
...Will White quit the University of Kansas in his senior year to work as printer on the El Dorado, Kans. Republican., He moved to Kansas City, where he reported for the Journal, which he left in 1892 because he felt it was slipping (it folded in 1942). In Kansas City he met and married Sallie Lindsay, a school teacher (their soth anniversary: this coming April 27). Then, in 1895, he borrowed $3,000, bought the Emporia Gazette...
Request. In El Dorado, Kans., the men who lounge on the running board of the fire truck each noon petitioned the city council for cushions...
...themselves. In the silent days, audiences crowded into tent theatres, sat ankle-deep in dust watching the leaps of Douglas Fairbanks, the tears of Barbara La Marr. They took it all very seriously, bombarding the villain on the screen with fruit and dirt. Occasionally an old. leathery Villista Dorado (Pancho Villa bodyguard) would come down from the mountains for a show, angrily pepper the screen with his six-shooter to save the heroine from the buzz saw. But the arrival of sound was tough on Mexicans, who had to follow the dialogue either with badly written Spanish titles superimposed...
...authentic historical outline. In the first years the Sandlappers sweated blood digging irrigation ditches by hand, only to have the water disappear into underground rivers. But their bitterest struggle came when at last they had the desert blooming. This was their fight, legal and extralegal, with the El Dorado Railroad (Southern Pacific), which enticed them with a price of a few dollars an acre, held up titles until the land was producing and then demanded superprofits. Readers will sympathize with the Sandlappers in their losing fight but will be glad that something happened to make the story move...