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...sound-off is his announcement of how much money he has already made from selling The Assyrian's contents to magazines-$8,300. Of this sum he got $5,000 from Cosmopolitan for The Cocktail Party and $3,000 from the Saturday Evening Post for The Pheasant Hunter. Most of the other stories he could not sell at all, but three of them he let go free to a magazine apparently close to his Anatolian-American heart: The Armenian Review. Less unusual in an introduction, but still reminiscent of the old Saroyan trapeze act, is his advice to other...
Another who believed in Scurry's future was Edith McKanna, a handsome, fortyish widow, who began buying up leases iff 1945 when she got out of the armed services. Soon she controlled 86,000 acres, now has seven producing wells. She gives dinners of pheasant and venison in her oil-lamplighted farmhouse, where some of the field's biggest oil deals have been closed. Veteran Oilman C. T. McLaughlin came to Scurry County 15 years ago to get away from the business, struck it rich also. He found that his 5,200-acre Diamond M ranch was right...
While he was gone, embarrassing questions began to crop up. Was it essential for General Omar Bradley to go pheasant hunting in a special Air Force plane? Was it vital to national defense for Navy Secretary Francis Matthews to fly his whole family to a military ceremony in Honolulu? Did Vice President Alben Barkley have to use a B-17 to take a three-piece band to a party for his St. Louis friend, Mrs. Carleton Hadley...
When the act ended, the Temple of Thebes shot 'way up into the air, and down came the market-place. It was just like shooting a bullet at the sky and having a ring-tailed pheasant come down instead...
...many ways, the Prince-Primate lived like the parish priest. In his vast, gloomy Esztergom palace, he used only a dining room and a bedsitting room (never heated) where he received visitors. On the table which under Mindszenty's predecessors bore the exquisite weight of geese and pheasant and rich Hungarian wine, only one hot meal a day was set before the Primate. On Fridays, he ate only bread & water as a sacrifice for Hungary's liberation from Communism...