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...jalopy caravans of Arkies and Okies-which haven't appeared. Sugar-beet farmers need their help now: they have more than 1,000,000 acres of beets to be blocked and thinned. Other farmers are waiting, too. After beets, in rapid succession the Okies are needed to cut hay and clover, plant soybeans, start harvesting oats, wheat and barley. But the migrants have disappeared like the Egyptians in the Red Sea. The farmers don't know what's become of their wandering field hands. Perhaps they have no tires or gasoline. Maybe they've found better...
Meanwhile in Mexico City, student demonstrators were smashing windows in the German Club, and leftist radicals "stormed" the Deutsches Haus. The Stalinists hastened to make political hay: Vicente Lombardo Toledano, President of the shadowy "Confederation of Workers of Latin America," wrote President Manuel Avila Camacho demanding that Mexico instantly declare formal war on the Axis and seize all Axis citizens' property; the leaders of the Stalinist-controlled C.T.M., biggest Mexican labor federation, demanded...
Perennial, hay-whiskered, quid-chompin William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 72, onetime (1932-35) Governor of Oklahoma, announced himself a candidate for Senator, said he would make two or three speeches a day "if I receive donations for campaign expenses sufficient to hire a driver to carry me from place to place...
...exercised for five or six miles, then cleaned and groomed; if he has no mare to serve that day he lolls around in his stall from 9 to 11, then lunch; 12:30 p.m. to 4: more lolling; 4:30 p.m.: cleaned and fed again (eats oats, bran, Nevada hay and a mixture of timothy and clover); then tucked into the barn for the night...
Equally characteristic is Arrau's thoroughness. He probably holds a world's record for cycle performances; once he performed all Bach's clavier works in twelve recitals; he has also given complete Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert cycles. To preserve his vitality, he keeps to the Hay diet (separating starches and proteins), eats fruit like a jungle dweller, does Yoga exercises, sleeps ten hours a night. Says he: "A musician owes it to his audiences not to have off days...