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...signing up for a cattle drive from Pendleton through Boise to Fort Benton, Montana. In Montana, he turns his winnings in a horse race (Callie, his prostitute mistress loaning the initial capital) into a profitable ranch. The politically ambitious Lat must, however, renounce his shady past and marries a Hoosier schoolmistress. His past quickly overtakes him, and he is simultaneously faced with embarrassing problems in which only compromise, rather than solution, is possible...

Author: By Nelson Bryce, | Title: These Thousand Hills: Study In Aculturation by Guthrie | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

...gentleman and Hoosier, I resent your publishing an article in your Feb. 27 issue about "Blabbin Bill" and placing it under the heading Indiana. If you want to make Senator William Jenner's followers ashamed of themselves for supporting such a smart aleck-all right, but why embarrass the rest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 19, 1956 | 3/19/1956 | See Source »

...soft-spoken Hoosier settled down in an incompletely furnished office in Washington's Health, Education and Welfare Department last week to tackle a big job. As special assistant (to Secretary Marion Folsom) for health and medical affairs, Dr. Lowell Thelwell Coggeshall, 55, has a roving commission, but his special concerns are improving research, financing medical education and making hospital care simpler and cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Hand at HEW | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Incoming Chairman John Barr, 47, born on a Hoosier farm, looks enough like Avery to be his son. He stands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Palace Revolution at Ward's | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

There was a sweet Hoosier named Hazel From the clay-baking town some call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 28, 1955 | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

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