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...Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still fight bears and cougars and board their children in school towns 50 miles away during winter. And across the Inland Empire, in a multitude of saloons called "Mint bars" and "Stockmen's bars," silver-dollar-jangling miners and cowpokes speak up loudly in a man's world, while the roads to something-else are still walked by cocky, freewheeling itinerant ranch hands, gandy dancers and bindlestiffs...
...nation's distilled spirits, but, with 83 dry counties out of a total of 120, the state consumes only 1.4%. Once a year Kentuckians get outside help on their drinking statistics. In Louisville's Brown Hotel Bar on the eve of the 1954 Kentucky Derby, 1,750 mint juleps were downed, mostly by visitors who hardly knew a frosted glass from a frozen custard. # The others: Bachelors Richard Russell, Theodore Green, Warren Magnuson and Henry Jackson: Widowers Allen Ellender, Hugh Butler and James Murray...
From boyhood, when he lay in a Racine (Wis.) attic gobbling Shakespeare, Hecht regarded the world simply as a mint for the coining of "words" and "phrases." Most young bibliophiles "take sides" pas sionately when they read a book, regard less of whether they understand all the words, but young Hecht managed to do just the opposite. He recognized no "characters" in Shakespeare, only "words [that] seemed to hang in the air like feats of magic." He was only 16 when he landed the job of "picture chaser" on the Chicago Daily Journal. He was "sent forth each dawn...
...Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy told the American Physical Society: "We have spent billions on the Marshall Plan, and then alienate much of the resulting good will by an unsympathetically and woodenly administered visa policy. This situation reminds one of the railroad that lavishes a mint of money on new streamliners and then lets the conductor insult the passengers..."Shown above is part of the East Boston Detention Station for Immigrants, where new arrivals are held for questioning, if necessary, and deportees are kept pending their removal from the country. Main offices of the Immigration service...
...again in the tough six-meter class, and sailed against the best, e.g., Corny Shields, Arthur Knapp, in the top-drawer International Class. He also began collecting "classic" sports cars. Among them: a 1929 Bugatti Royale, a 1913 Mercer Raceabout, a 1909 American Underslung, a 1913 Peugeot, plus a mint collection of Bentleys. the $15,000 British sports car that Cunningham generally drives when he is not racing. Cunningham candidly admits that he does not know precisely how many of the cars (all licensed, tuned and ready to go) he keeps in the spreading garage on his estate at Greens...