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Until a few months ago, the only place where Dale Bumpers was known and admired was the Ozark foothills town of Charleston, Ark. (pop. 1,353), where he is choir director and lead baritone at the Methodist church. He is the city attorney because he is the town's only lawyer, and he has at one time or another represented nearly every business firm, plaintiff, criminal and divorcee in the community's recent history. Outside of Charleston, Bumpers was so unknown that shortly after he decided last spring to run for Governor, one computer sampling showed that...
...screen door wrirrraangs at the post office-general store run by Miss Latha Bourne in Stay More, a community of 113 souls deep in the Ozark Mountains. It also opens on a tall tale that is a love story as well, told by a young man who is reconstructing the events of a summer he once spent totally in Latha's thrall. He was five years old at the time...
...collections around the world, this is his first for TIME and first of a real, live girl. The others have all been imaginary. The sculpture took three weeks to complete, and Gallo personally brought it from Champaign, Ill., to New York-it sat beside him in a first-class Ozark Air Lines seat. At first the package was too bulky to get the seat belt around, so Gallo was obliged to unwrap it. That caused quite a stir on the plane. "The hostesses came on the intercom," says Gallo, "and announced that they were pleased to have Myra Breckinridge...
...skeptical attitude toward the documentary affects the way we approach the exhibition of Ben Shahn photographs currently at the Fog Museum. Labels reading " Destitute Ozark Residents" underneath a group of these pictures may offend the contemporary social conscience, acquainted with the pathos of poverty. Shahn, one of the first to make this kind of photograph, tried to awaken a complacent audience to the horrors of the thirties...
After a limosine ride form his home in nearby Independence, Truman, accompanied by his wife Bess, will take off from Kansas City Municipal Airport aboard an Ozark jet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday (Central Daylight Time), sources reported. Some two hours later, he will land in Boston, in time to get a good night's sleep before receiving his degree from Harvard on Thursday morning...