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Nomadic Editors. Every region of the U.S. produced its own magazines. In the Midwest, Midland (1915-33) published such indigenous authors as Paul Engle, Maxwell Anderson and Howard Mumford Jones. In California, a magazine sensibly titled Magazine (1933-35) printed Critics Yvor Winters and R. P. Blackmur. In Santa Fe, Laughing Horse (1921-39) celebrated the Southwest through the writing of such contributors as Upton Sinclair and Sherwood Anderson. Not all of the contributors by any means became well known; many of talent gave up, or turned to Hollywood or alcohol. "Some of the people now forgotten," says Robert Lowell...
...bone remnants and decided that they were nearly 11,000 years old. Thus, they reasoned, the bones lying in the stratum below must be between 11,000 and 13,000 years old. This gives Marmes man paleontologic seniority over such previously discovered Western Hemisphere relics as "Minnesota Minnie," the Midland (Texas) man and the Tepexpan (Mexico) man, all estimated to be some 10,000 years...
...case of Midland, a member of the commissioners court was elected from each of four districts*, but the one who represented almost all of the city of Midland had many times as many constituents as the three rural representatives put together. As a Midland resident, Mayor Hank Avery objected, and filed suit. Since the commissioners were regarded as the general ruling body of the county by the Supreme Court majority, it had no hesitation in halting the rural overrepresentation...
Dramatic & Chaotic. It did note, however, that a different conclusion might be reached in the case of "a special-purpose unit of government assigned the performance of functions affecting definable groups of constituents more than other constituents." If, for instance, the commissioners in Midland had been concerned only with rural roadbuilding, apportionment "in ways which give greater influence to the citizens most affected" might be permissible. The court also recalled two of its decisions last term (TIME, June 2): one, citing the "basically appointive" nature of a county board of education, approved its selection by delegates elected from districts...
...could significantly cut down the number of legislative bodies affected by the court's new decision, but government experts estimated that 20,000 local units would still be involved. Some had already adjusted districting after the state-legislature decision, but many have not. The aftermath of Avery v. Midland County will probably be as dramatic-and chaotic-as was the aftermath of the initial one-man, one-vote decision, particularly since the court again chose not to specify how close to the equal-population ideal a districting plan must come to be acceptable...