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...country editor, Leroy Gore, 50, did so well running Midwest papers that he was able to start the Sauk-Prairie Star in Sauk City, Wis. in 1952. Editor Gore filled the Star with tried-and-true reader-catching personals, a homespun "Star Dust'' column, and two columns of editorials under a good-humored standing slogan (H. L. Mencken's "Every little squirt thinks he's a fountain of wisdom"). The Star's circulation climbed to 3,200, and the paper turned a neat profit...
...Church of Saint Eugenius. "Where's Bristol?" Fazzini angrily demanded. "To know who I am all you have to do is open any art publication or see who won the first prize at the international Biennale of Venice." Back in Bristol, Fazzini's blast got a homespun retort. Editorialized the Bristol Herald Courier: "He said he didn't know where Bristol is after he learned us 'hillbillies' in this 'mountain-locked community' reckoned his divine piece of Small Boy and Fawn wasn't worth the asking price of $8,500 in view...
...issue of the play is a timeless one: country virtue vs. city materialism. A dignified but homespun Vermont woman suddenly gains as a living companion on her farm a plump, middle aged woman from Dedbam, Mass., who speaks through her nose and adores TV. The latter can hardly appreciate an old woman who reminisces about the boarded-up southwest corner of her house, just because it was once the parlor of her family. A conflict of values is inevitable...
...real heroine is Enid Marcy as the woman from Dedham. Had she only repeated her lines, she would be a characterization rather than a character. Instead, she restrains the humor of her position and substitutes a touch of pathos. This fact alone changes her from a shallow critic of homespun virtue to a character equal in strength to her companion...
With a loud flourish of trumpets, the Liebmann Breweries (fourth largest in U.S.) announced that next year's Miss Rheingold, elected over some 1,200 other sudsy beauties by the nation's beer-lovers, will be elfish Nancy Woodruff, 21, a homespun girl from Oakland, Calif. But what really made Nancy newsworthy was her affinity for fluids: she was last year's Miss Anti-Freeze...