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There was once in old New England a brand of man called, among other names, a horse trader. By promising anything, eve his homespun shirt, and never paying, he reaped great profits from unsuspecting children and old women. After a while, most people began to think that the horse traders were pulling their legs. The traders, sensing this, decided that there was strength in numbers, and so seven of them banded together...
Then Magsaysay went unabashedly to work building himself up as a homespun hero and as a great friend of America. Said 45-year-old Magsaysay...
...clothes. For some 35,000 thrifty, hard-working Amish folk, living mostly in Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania, the Devil is a sleepless foe, whom they dodge by foregoing automobiles, plumbing, cosmetics, store-bought underwear, high-school education and all manner of frivolity. Amish folk seldom break through the black homespun that seems to divide them from their neighbors, but when they do, outsiders get a glimpse of the strange life behind the curtain. Last week Hazleton, Iowa (pop. 550) was still agitated by such an escape: two Amish girls had gone out into the Devil's world...
Rogers of the Gazette (Wed. 9:30 p.m., CBS Radio) is Will Rogers Jr., who is shown as the friendly editor of a country newspaper, struggling against the pressures and prejudices of small-town life. Homespun, slow-spoken Will (who used to be publisher of California's Beverly Hills Citizen) drops pearls of wisdom in the quizzical voice, if not the skeptical manner, of his humorist father. Says Will: "This is a good, sensible little program. I may not feel at ease yet, but I think I'm getting there." Unsponsored...
Trudging across this bleak land last week, surrounded by adoring crowds wherever he went, was a gentle, half-deaf little wisp of a man, dressed in the garb of poverty-a homespun dhoti and cheap brown canvas sneakers-but lighted by a flame of authority that has made him one of India's most notable spiritual leaders. His name is Vinoba Bhave (pronounced bah vay). He has no place in the government or any other secular organization; he is what Hindus call an acharya (preceptor). Only a land with holy cities, sacred rivers and thin margins between want...