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Louisiana's roly-poly John Overton objected: a sudden time jag would cause him to miss his favorite radio commentator (Lowell Thomas), and foul up the delivery schedule of his milkman...
...town like Indianapolis, a daydreaming flirt, in a struggle with family failure, local snobbery and a doomed love affair. Nothing more; but anyone could see that it was "well written," meaning that the writer had a pleased ear for U.S. speech; an effortless way of evoking familiar things "[the milkman's horse] casually shifted weight with a clink of steel shoes on the worn brick pavement of the street, and then heartily shook himself in his harness, perhaps to dislodge a fly far ahead of its season"; and the ability to spin out at his sardonic leisure a plot...
...supplement will vary its picture-story routine with articles aimed to please all 21 of the publishers who buy it. "We've found that human interest stories of ordinary people do a swell job of selling America to the Americans," says Motley. "We take a trainman, or a milkman. Show how he lives, what he eats, where he works, his hobbies. It's not heavy. But by & large it shows that people like their homes, their jobs, the companies they work for. We're doing it the easy way. We tell...
...Owoooooo!" cried the housewives of Cerne Abbas (Dorset), "here's the milkman and me with the curlers still in my hair!" No wonder they were fluttered. The milkman was Edward Kenelm Digby, 52, eleventh Baron Digby, World War I colonel in the Coldstream Guards, World War II inspector of infantry-training establishments, co-grandfather (with Winston Churchill) of Randolph Churchill's small son. Winston Churchill...
Baron Digby turned milkman when none of his 40 employes could drive the newly purchased delivery truck. Now his Lordship likes to drive it so much that he won't give...