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...melancholy that suicides were not uncommon. One father killed his young family. Dr. Grenfell had to teach them how to live. He set them to work planting turnips, cabbages, tomatoes for protection against scurvy, established cooperative stores, built trade schools, orphanages, imported sheep and goats. started home industries-mink breeding, rug-making, walrus-tusk carving...
Last winter from Boise, Idaho, a woman set the long-distance buying record by telephoning and money-ordering for a $200 mink coat. Only one phony has been recorded, but last April Fools' Day the program turned down an offer of a .32-calibre revolver from John Bad, later found it bona fide, the seller's full name being Badinovac. One man has been trying unsuccessfully to get $25 for six pairs of breeding bullfrogs and several hundred pollywogs. Another wants to trade a shotgun for a trailer. Biggest item the program has ever tried to sell...
...Angeles, citizens scarcely raise their eyebrows at sights that seem bizarre in other U. S. cities. On downtown streets they have grown accustomed to seeing women in pink pants & mink coats, sober grownups dodging in & out of traffic on motorized scooters, family sedans with Gospel quotations gold-lettered on their doors. Last week, Los Angelenos acquired another anomaly. Hereafter, when they go to the fights at the Olympic Auditorium, they will see a woman referee in the ring...
...Book Three the idiot Ike Snopes falls in love with a cow. Mink Snopes murders a widower named Houston. The villagers, to cure the idiot of "stock-diddling," slaughter the cow and require him to eat of her. In a gruesome scene Houston's hound attacks Mink. Mink is caught and jailed...
...Book Four Flem returns from Texas with a string of insanely wild piebald ponies and sells them to his neighbors. They break loose in horrendous slapstick and pervade the countryside. Mink gets a life sentence; Cousin Flem doesn't lift a finger to help him. Two bourgeois and a desperate peasant invest all they have in a plot of land where Civil War treasure is known to be buried. They find Flem has hoodwinked them as he has everyone else. When last seen, Flem is on his way to larger operations in Jefferson...