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During his mission, Stromberg found himself paired with a potato picker from Idaho, a reformed thief from Baltimore and a Japanese missionary who introduced Stromberg to the language, customs, and life he would have to lead. But Stromberg found it very easy to get along with his companions: "You forget a lot of yourself when you're working with somebody to accomplish a common goal that exists outside of yourself.," he says. "Especially one you're totally dedicated to and believe...
...Jordan?hold seats in the House. There are 99 black state legislators, ranging from Georgia's 22 to Virginia's two, out of a total of 1,782 seats available. Only one Southern black has been elected to office by statewide vote: he is Joseph Hatchett, 44, a fruit picker's son who won a place on the Florida Supreme Court. Last week Howard Lee, a black former mayor of Chapel Hill, N.C., got 46% of the vote in a Democratic primary runoff for Lieutenant Governor ?a good showing, but not enough. In Mississippi, Fred Banks...
This cotton-picker name of Red Vine from the Dirty Side was rolling a pregnant skate through Watergate town other day when he passed the home twenty of lady breaker First Mama. There was no city kitty so, mercysakes, Red hammered off, keyed his rig and called "Breaker one-niner for KUY-9532. "Negative copy. That foxy lady wasn 't hanging out, didn 't have her ears on. Good buddy told her anyway, "You truck 'em easy now, Apple Betty. Eighty-eights and ten, roger...
Died. H. Allen Smith, 68, pungent humorist-author of 36 books, many of them bestsellers; of undetermined causes; in San Francisco. A onetime altar boy and chicken picker, Smith quit school after the eighth grade and began newspapering. In 1941 he was feature writing for the New York World Telegram when he published bestselling Low Man on a Totem Pole, enabling him to quit his job and concentrate on humor. Always the newsman, Smith saw himself as a reporter who was funny only because "the world is funny...
...legacy them hit friend Seager rather than his own political fervor--on his gaiter strop. But the adds still when an old number comes up--he's still the Gibraltar of the band. And it's a fine band, particularly now that Randy has become as good a picker as Doc Watson: it gets awesome to think of where he'll he when he's more than a handful of years past his teenage. Gary, the bass player and singer, has a gritty, semi-Dylan voice that fits perfectly and unassumingly with fast-clip rock/bluegrass, but which in blues-ballads...