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...well in advance of publication certain stories which by their nature obviously require a particular seriousness and deliberation of treatment not always possible in the hurly-burly of reporting the week's news of the world [e.g., Laurence Olivier in Henry V (TIME, April 8), Iowa Farmer Gus Kuester (TIME, April 29), Eugene O'Neill (TIME...
...dried as a stalk in an old corn shock. Big, conservative, conscientious Gustav Theodore Kuester (TIME, April 29) had left his rich Cass County acres and no head of first-rate hogs in the care of a friend and moved into smoggy Des Moines to do his biennial bit of legislating. The 98 Republicans in the 108-member House promptly and unanimously elected him Speaker...
...surprised. Gus Kuester ran a hoe-hardened hand through his silvery hair, told his colleagues in his slow, casual way that the chief thing he has in mind is a successful session...
...Kuester's first problem was not political, but he met it with his customary forthrightness. He flatly refused to follow precedent by wearing a soup-&-fish to Governor Robert D. Blue's fancy inaugural ball. Said Speaker Gus: "I know some fellows wear them, but the only way they would ever get me into one of those things is when I'm dead...
Next time you run into Gus Kuester [TIME, April 29] pacing the anteroom of his porcine maternity ward, would you suggest to him that perhaps one reason he is so cheerful about the future of this country is because I am helping to pay for his pigs? I myself am not so happy about it, as it wasn't my idea to let Washington spend one-fifth of my rapidly diminishing income on these subsidies- although since I must, I only hope the pork chops are going to starving Europe, since they certainly never show...