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...those days small-town life was a popular literary theme, with two schools of approach. One stemmed from mellow Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley, was ripest in the folksy novels of Hoosier Booth Tarkington. The other stemmed from the Spoon River Anthology by an Illinois lawyer and politician, Edgar Lee Masters. The ripest work of this school is Sherwood Anderson's. His meandering, mystical tales present the U. S. small town as a dimpling surface above dark fathoms of frustrated desires. He wrote of a typical female in Winesburg, Ohio: "At night she dreamed that he had bitten into...
...ought to know! The Hoosier Hammer, who stands an even six feet and displays the perfect build of a Greek statue when stripped of his football paraphernalia, carried the ball officially on 21 of the Maize and Blue plays. He gained a total of 123 yards, averaging 5.85 yards every time he carried the oval...
Because the Willkie house was too small, they met in the Masonic Lodge over the Princess Theatre on North Street, and the matrons of the Eastern Star were deputized to prepare lunch featuring Hoosier Willkie's favorite dish, fried chicken...
...give you five minutes," saic Princess Kropotkin. Sue went up and stayed an hour. The Princess told Sue that she had been overcome with boredom after a cocktail party when she accepted an invitation to look at a proud Hoosier's "blue ribbon" stable, found it filled with "giant farm horses"-Percherons. The Princess said she had never before realized that Midwestern men could get drunk on so little liquor...
Proud of its title of the "Hoosier Athens" is Crawfordsville, Ind. (pop. 10,000), home of the late great Best-Seller General Lew Wallace (Ben Hur). Crawfords ville's biggest office building-five stories-is owned by Ben Hur Life Association. The town's prettiest buildings are on the campus of Wabash College. Two or three times a year, one of these buildings, a prim chapel seating 1,100 people, becomes Crawfordsville's concert hall. There last fortnight, Crawfordsville culture glowed at its brightest. In the chapel 650 townsfolk heard the season's second and final...