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After the meal, while dishes rattled in the kitchen, Farmer Delair smoked the new pipe his wife gave him for a Valentine. As the sky grew lighter, he went outside with son Ralph Jr., who had stayed home from Ople High School to help Hired Hand James Dieker...
...sunk over the low hills in the west. Then he milked his cow again, fed his stock, covered the tractors for the night, ate a supper of roast beef, potatoes, biscuits. When the dark came, he was in the old-fashioned sitting room off the kitchen, smoking his pipe, listening to the radio, reading what old William Allen White had to say about weather and politics in the Emporia Gazette. At 9:30 he was in bed, sound asleep, not hearing the stinging Kansas wind whipping the darkened house...
Colgate got a new president last week whose bald head belies his years (40). To succeed retiring George Barton Cutten (TIME, Feb. 2), Colgate's trustees chose judicious, pipe-smoking Everett Needham Case, son-in-law of Owen D. Young...
...tennis players in the U.S., this sounded like a pipe dream. Given lights, what would they use for balls? Weeks ago, the Government's production bosses had cracked down on rubber for all sporting goods...
Ostensibly, both men were appointed by the services and will be paid by the services, but all Washington knew that they were Nelson men. Haters of red tape, all-out expansionists and good cussers, they carried short lengths of lead pipe in their hip pockets, for use if the Army & Navy clung too stubbornly to old practices...