Word: indianas
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...have read what Hillary of Florida, Gladney of Oklahoma, Taylor of Indiana and the four soldiers of Kansas have to say about John L. Lewis and his coal miners (TIME, May 24). I note that none of these men have overseas addresses...
...there had been almost ceaseless rain. (In Chicago, 16 days out of May's first 19 dripped.) The monstrously gorged rivers-the Mississippi, Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois, Wabash, Osage, White, many others-roared like millraces, rose until they overspread their banks and engulfed the land. From Illinois and Indiana south to Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, hundreds of thousands of acres seeded with the food the world is waiting for lay under water. Swirling chaos enveloped many a valley town and city. In Oklahoma, Iowa and Kansas, tornadoes added to the havoc...
Ernest Taylor Pyle, better known to millions as Ernie, is an inconspicuous, frail, 110-lb. man of 42, homely and quiet-mannered. He looks exactly as if he came smack off an Indiana farm - which he did, some two decades ago. This week this pixyish little man, America's most widely read war correspondent, won one of the National Headliners Club's annual awards for newspaper, radio and photographic excellence. Pyle's award (one of twelve) was for "best foreign feature" reporting...
...Charlotte, N.C. Civitan Club sent him a letter of appreciation and a bag of sand, after he had said facetiously in a column from sandy North Africa: "If somebody will just send me a little sackful of sand for Easter, everything will be wonderful." From admirers (members of the Indiana Legislature, the National Press Club in Washington, and just plain people) Pyle has received over $6,000 worth of cigarets for him and distribution among the troops...
Willkie's sincerity cannot be doubted, despite an over-recurrence to the scenes of Rush County, Indiana, he is earnest and impeachably honest. His stature and wisdom has measurably increased since the last campaign; his education is an unending process. We like you, Mr. Willkie. But Wendell--why did you ever leave the Democratic Party...