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...home town of Athens. To landscape the 2,000-acre site, he has planted 10,000 pine seedlings and 10,000 strawberry plants. Says a friend: "Murchison does almost everything by ten thousands." But when the new Athenians really want to enjoy themselves, they make for the Koon Kreek Klub, an exclusive (i.e., mostly millionaires) tract of wilderness near Athens. There, Murchison, Richardson and such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines...
...France and Belgium, the Sélection du Reader's Digest is the biggest (936,070) of all monthlies. In Sweden, Det Bästa ur Readers Digest (circ. 268,184) is the biggest monthly, as Selezione dal Reader's Digest is in Italy and Valitut Palat koon-nut Reader's Digest is in Finland. The Portuguese-and Spanish-language Digests are tops all over the continent of South America; the Japanese edition is now 651,000. The Digest is printed in eleven languages, read in 58 nations. In the U.S., 31,000 U.S. blind read...
...trap. So they collected their warriors to the number of 85 or 90 and surrounded the spot; they then by means of a cord exploded the shell. Down goes Capt. Rains with a Sergt. Corpl. and sixteen men. On coming to the place he found an old "Koon" (sic) dead. Whilst he was kicking or turning the Koon over with his foot the Indians rose up and fired. The men behaved very handsomely, at once formed and extended. The chief of the party was twice seen to step out and fire at the Sergt. who was very active in forming...
...Bloomingdale, N. J., police jailed Eng Wing Koon, 27, Manhattan laundryman who proposed to earn his way to Hollywood by tying his three-foot pigtail on roadside trees, swinging painfully for five minutes, collecting fees from interested passersby...
...Scanlon '18, R. S. Richards '16, H. M. Thurston '16, J. M. Waterman '17, C. L. McAlpine '15, L. B. Lynch 1L., S. E. Rothchild, Jr., '17, R. W. Nelson '16, J. H. Lewis uC.; C. B. Blaisdell '18, D. M. Satz 1L., M. Cohen '15, R. M. Koon 1G., F. E. Hulse '15, W. B. Feiga '16, Benjamin Robinson '15, J. A. Levy...