Word: minne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Government man got in touch with Farmer Art Wardner of East Grand Forks, Minn, one day last week to buy up Art's big stockpile of 1949 potatoes. It was a cozy ceremony and just crazy enough to point at one of the more fantastic aspects of the U.S. farm program. The Government man agreed to pay Art $2,336 for his 160,000 pounds of spuds at $1.46 a hundredweight. Then, without a single potato changing hands, Art wrote a check for $16. He mailed it to the Government, thus bought back his potatoes for cattle feed...
...first and only woman ambassador, quietly elegant Eugenie Anderson of Red Wing, Minn., arrived in Copenhagen less than two months ago. Already Danes call her "second lady of the land." How does she do it? Her Red Wing diplomacy was nicely evident last week...
Last week, while 62-year-old Irving" Lindberg visited the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. for a checkup and surgery, government accountants were going over the customs books. "Lindy's my friend," said Dictator Tacho. "I don't think there's anything wrong with his accounts. But Lindy's getting old." It looked very much as though the last survivor of the U.S. occupation...
...about it. Their only child, Marjorie Jean, became a nun when she was 17. Last November stocky Donald Foster, 50, decided that the time had come. After asking his pastor's advice, he wrote to the Rt. Rev. Alcuin Deutsch, of St. John's Abbey at Collegeville, Minn., and got an airmail reply. With a doctor's certificate of good health, he would be accepted for a year of study at the monastery before entering the novitiate...
...Copenhagen, Puffed Wheat Heir John Pierce Anderson, an abstract artist of Red Wing, Minn., gave an adequate performance in a tough role. As he arrived in Denmark with Madam Ambassador Eugenie Anderson and their two children, he was asked the inevitable question ("How does it feel to be the husband of the first U.S. woman ambassador?"). Anderson thought solemnly for a moment, eyed the reporters with a twinkle and muttered: "A difficult question...