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...glassy-eyed at what was happening. He watched a rotary hoe go for $950 (it would cost $3,500 new) and two irrigation motors for $155 (they would cost $1,000 if new); a small cultivator, bought ten years ago for $500, went for $2. Danny's wife Frieda, 33, stayed away from the auction. "She cried," Danny admitted. "She cried...
Last year cotton, which had brought 800 per Ib. in the panhandle in 1980, dropped to less than 400. Danny grossed $60,000-but he had borrowed $86,000 from the Farmers Home Administration for planting, irrigation, fertilizer and insecticides. Danny let the hired hand go, and Frieda went into the fields with her husband, helping with irrigation, cultivation and planting. Nevertheless, they lost...
...well. "There are too many farm sales and money is tight," he said. "I hate this, but I think I'll be happier not worrying about it." Looking back, he regrets putting so much of his life into the farm, forgoing any vacations. "I've never taken Frieda any place for over a day," he says. "Now we can't buy a car and our 1974 Ford is worn...
There you have it. Ten things to do in Florida besides-lay in the sun. Just clip the list out, and put it away until you wake up one morning in Aunt Frieda's condo and the rain is playing bongos on the roof. While everyone else heads for Neiman Marcus and the Parrot Jungle, you'll know the esoteric spots--the places to go if you crave a Rheingold...
Even for bygone celebrities, Muggeridge offers malicious, revelatory anecdotes: "When D.H. Lawrence was dying he complained that his feet were cold, whereupon Frieda warmed them against her enormous German bosom ... a very symbolic scene worth remembering." When Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover, "was very broke, in desperation he telephoned to the Daily Mail an announcement that he had died. A long defamatory obituary duly appeared, and Douglas was able to collect...