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Except for the depot, there are only five buildings in Marshall Pass, Colo. Twice a week the train with the mail from Salida comes chuffing up the Denver & Rio Grande Western, snuffling around the bare ribs of the Colorado mountains like an old hound dog on a cold trail. In the quiet at 11,000 feet, when the wind is right, Postmaster Gus Latham can hear the train coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last...
...than a doubletalking quack. In time he not only shames his narrow-minded enemies but gives them, free, some sobering doses of analysis as well. At times coming very close to being a boring do-gooder, he rids a local rich man of his compulsion to bay like a hound, comforts the intimidated German townspeople when World War I comes along, and nearly kills himself treating the town's poor...
Press Aide Charlie Ross watched with his sad hound-dog expression. Clark Clifford, preoccupied, scratched his chin. The conference ended...
...seedbed for little magazines, the American soil is fertile but thinly spread. Of the hundreds that have sprouted since 1912, only a handful have put down roots. Some of the best (Hound & Horn, the Dial, etc.) have withered and died. Last week a cluster of new ones bravely poked their heads above ground...
Charles Ross, 62, a lanky hound-dog-sad-looking man who succeeded Steve Early as press secretary. Likable, intelligent, usually tired, he dogtrots through a delicate and strategic job; he is also handicapped by Mr. Truman's understandable but unhelpful desire to keep all details of his personal life private. Ross went to high school with the President, became chief of the Washington Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, once won a Pulitzer prize for his stories on the Hoover depression...