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...Girl Named Paquita. After a bucolic boyhood in Indiana, Cincinnatus Hiner Miller (his real name) did indeed go west in a covered wagon. Hot with "Oregon fever," the Miller clan made the trek in 1852, but with most of Oregon to choose from, papa Miller, a hard luck farmer, staked out 320 arid acres. Restless and unhappy, Joaquin won his father's consent to go prospecting for "Californy gold." In later years, Joaquin claimed that he threw all but the biggest nuggets away, but his accounts show that he had a cash balance of $5.25 when he quit...
...writer who might have complained most of frontier neglect complained not at all. That was yellow-haired Joaquin Miller (christened Cincinnatus Hiner Miller), a "delicate, effeminate, useless" romantic who had a daughter by an Indian woman, became a judge ("with one lawbook and two six-shooters," said oldtimers), married a romantic Oregon girl-poet named Minnie Myrtle whom he divorced because "Lord Byron separated from his wife, and some of my friends think I am a second Lord Byron." From San Francisco editors Poet Miller got rejection slips until his famous junket to England. Armed with a laurel wreath...
...other Democratic Senator. 30-year-old Rush Dew Holt, has made many a bitter charge that Senator Neely was using WPA jobs to build up a great political machine (TIME, March 23). To get even with his senior colleague for hogging WPA patronage, Senator Holt backed Ralph M. Hiner, onetime Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates, for the nomination. Rush D. Holt won only the moral victory of having told the truth about the strength of the Neely machine which swamped Candidate Hiner more than...
...went out to investigate "Radithor," made by Bailey Radium Laboratories at East Orange, N.J. Robert Hiner Winn, attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, interviewed Byers at his Southampton home last September. Last week Attorney Winn described the scene: "A more gruesome experience in a more gorgeous setting would be hard to imagine. We went up to Southampton where Byers had a magnificent home. There we discovered him in a condition which beggars description...
Republican* Democrats Arthur R. Robinson- Evans Woolen! Oswald Ryan Ward B. Hiner A. G. Graham James R. Norrels The Indiana primaries fall on May 4. According to the state law, unless one candidate receives a majority the nomination is decided by a state convention. So the Democratic nominee for the long term and the Republican nominee for the short term may be chosen in that...