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...well-known hunger for fresh salt-water fish, a Yankee money-making idea was promptly hatched. With their last pennies they bought a refrigerator truck; which they loaded with the sea-food; and set out with all haste toward Chicago. For a whole day they sped towards the Mid-Western metropolis with their fish. In a small hamlet near Erle, Pa., they stopped and put in a long-distance call to several of the largest Chicago hotels, clubs, and restaurants, telling each, "We are just leaving Marblehead, Massachusetts, with a truckload of fresh haddock, which we guarantee to have...
...Boston Symphony concerts. There is a course in the appreciation of art, Fine Arts 1d, and maybe 50 undergraduates attend the Greater Boston art museums in a week. The University gives no course in the appreciation of football, and yet over 2,000 go to the local exhibitions. At mid-western colleges we are told, a man may major in football, and then go to Law School to take special courses in football rules and their interpretation...
...Sunday Afternoon (by James Hagan; Leo Peters & Leslie J. Spiller, producers). Here is a play sure in its unpretentious telling of a wholesome, sometimes humorous, sometimes moving story. A frieze of homely figures on a Mid-western ground, One Sunday Afternoon opens in the shabby dental parlor of Biff Grimes. D. D. S. (Lloyd Nolan, an able new-comer). Stimulated by an old crony, a bottle of rye and innumerable repetitions of "in the good old summer time." Biff's imagination reaches sadly back to his youth in another little town. Nostalgia gives way to intemperate anger when...
...bronze medal of the Art Institute of Chicago. He remembered U. S. primitives-Currier & Ives prints and old furniture catalogs. lowans bought his new pictures with as much pleasure as conscience. He painted The Birthplace of Herbert Hoover at West Branch. Of his famed American Gothic, portraits of a Mid-Western farmer & wife, Christopher Morley wrote: "In those sad and fanatical faces may be read much, both of what is Right and what is Wrong with America." Most lowans saw on the canvas only the hard, exact details of Iowa. They were flattered that Iowa's boy chose...
Your most interesting account and genealogy of "Bull" Durham in TIME, July 4, under Animals does not take into account a story which has circulated in these parts since the advent of the "lugubrious-passioned buxom Holstein cow" into the tobacco advertisements. This mid-western story is that one of the old style "Bull" Durham ads appeared on a Minnesota highway just across a pasture fence in which pasture a Swede farmer pastured his Holstein herd of fine dairy cows. Soon the farmer found a decline in his milk supply, later it was discovered that his cows spent their daylight...