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This spring the Hutterites of Pincher Creek, Alta. quietly bought 1,000 acres of farmland near Lind, Wash., leased an additional 5,000 acres with an option to buy. Last week 23 members of the Bruderhof who went ahead to take over the new land were bringing in their first grain harvest. Pincher Creek's President Paul Gross was delighted with the results...
...sometime pacifist who wrote some of France's finest war poetry, a good family man who grew into an aged satyr, a penny pincher who showered generosity on many. He was a shaker of culture and an object of curiosity and adulation rarely equaled. On his 79th birthday 600,000 Parisians paraded past his home. When he died, just 71 years ago this month, he was laid in state beneath the Arc de Triomphe, then escorted by 2,000,000 of his countrymen to his tomb in the Pantheon...
...worried businessmen with a pitch something like this: "We'll come in and tell you what's wrong with your business for $100." Once in, May's "actioneers" get to work "opening the job," and sell the client-who falls into one of 49 types ("Penny Pincher, Stone Face, the Playboy, the Boor, the Weakling")-a long service which often costs thousands...
...Tracy in last week for an explanation. Even from Dick Tracy, the nemesis of criminals for 20 years, it sounded thin. Said Detective Tracy: "I've had a steady job here . . . for 20 years. I was a bachelor for almost 19 of those 20 years, and a penny pincher...
Eight miles west of Pincher Creek, Alberta, which had 36 in. of snow, 40 people spent a shivery night in a snowbound bus. In Cardston, Alberta, Mrs. Andrew Fulton took a worried look at snow-clogged roads, telephoned her husband in Lethbridge and said she hoped he would try to get home by Christmas...