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...native Montanan . . . I was thrilled to see your recent pictures and article. Regardless of the cost, the Lewis & Clark expedition was a huge success. Recent discovery of records of the expedition . . . reveals the cost of the enterprise to be considerably higher than the oft-quoted "$2,500," an amount that actually represents only the initial appropriation by Congress...
...Near Martin City, Mont., Hunter Baker Hagstad dropped two other hunters with a single rifle shot. One died; the other was badly wounded. Another Montanan, out for elk, shot a white horse draped with a scarlet blanket and tied to a tree. Joseph A. Hoffman, 36, of Missoula, Mont., killed an elk, promptly keeled over, dead of a heart attack...
Dirty Work. In Washington, Post Office Department Solicitor Vincent M. Miles revealed to a House committee that a $3,200-a-year job reading magazines for obscenity was still going begging. The last man who tried it, a Montanan, gave up in six weeks. He said he did not like Washington...
...Wheeler had contended that Kentucky has a desert training center. "A desert in country like Kentucky!" Barkley cried. "Why, there is more sand and scrub in the City Park in Butte . . . than there is in the whole of the old Kentucky home." He found a transcript of the Montanan's remarks, fell to studying, presently announced that Wheeler must have had Fort Knox's cookery school in mind and meant to say "dessert...
...mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...