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Loyal Rebel. For most of his first 15 years with the S.P. Don Russell supervised track laying and train routing in the mountain passes where the winter snows piled to depths of 50 ft. Mingling unshakable loyalty to his railroad with hog-on-ice independence, Russell more than once made way for moneymaking freight by sidetracking other trains in defiance of orders from on high...
Occasionally, Mauldin's wallops land a little below the belt - as in his figure of Charles de Gaulle sitting by the bed of a skeleton labeled "Colonialism" and observing cheerfully: "While there's life there's hope." A liberal by instinct, Mauldin refused to be hog-tied by the hampering allegiances that can destroy a cartoonist's punch. "I have lots of acquaintances and few friends," he says. Democrat Mauldin was all for John Kennedy during the campaign, but lost little time after the election in searching for cracks in the idol. He poked...
...Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and told him succinctly: "The Government is no good for farmers." Said Howard later: "I didn't sass him or nothin'. I told him the Government should try to get out of the farming picture in ten or 15 years-slowly. The hog market has no price supports and they're doing fine, but the corn market has, and is messed up." A few minutes later, the visitor met President Jack Kennedy. "Howard, what do you think about the farm situation?" asked Jack. Howard made the same pitch -the Government ought...
...high on the hog, with my first piece of luggage and two coats," Leontyne left Laurel for the North. Impressed by her voice, an Army chaplain from nearby Camp Shelby had helped her win a scholarship to Wilberforce University, a mostly Negro school in Ohio. On her entrance application she wrote, under Plans for the Future: "I'm worried about the future because I want so much to be a success...
Question: What do you do if the kinfolk show up only at hog-killing time, licking their chops for pork? Answer: Keep the execution secret. Question: What do you do when your husband's whittle shavings are always flying into the piecrust? Answer: Get him a "whittling room...