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Unique is South Carolina's method of campaigning for a primary election. In 1890 Benjamin Ryan ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, out for Governor, charged that only a man of wealth could reach the people through the Press,* stumped each & every county in the State in person, won a great victory. Two years later the anti-Tillman faction sent its candidate out to dog the Governor around the State. Thus the custom developed of having all the candidates in a State-wide primary travel together, speak in the same place at the same time. This system is hard on office-seekers...
Highest priced ($900) is Noon, a depiction of bucolic love during the lunch hour. Beside a hayrick, against which he has dropped his pitchfork, a sturdy young farmer, barefooted and stripped to the waist, clutches a girl in a blue dress who looks both alarmed and fascinated. Another farmer is asleep on his back atop the hay wagon, with his hat over his face. In the pie pan one piece of pumpkin pie is left...
...city dweller, an agricultural implement may be a hoe or a pitchfork. But the implement industry thinks of itself in terms of reapers, harvesters, threshers, trucks and tractors-particularly tractors. Its business is essentially the mechanization of the farm, the replacement of four-legged power by power obtained from oil and gasoline engines. Its goal is the technological obsolescence of the horse...
Ever since the day in 1930 when his American Gothic won $300 and a bronze medal from the Chicago Art Institute, the name of Grant Wood has echoed persistently throughout the land. In five years, Artist Wood's picture of the bleak, bald Iowa farmer with the pitchfork and his daughter with the cameo and the printed apron has become almost as well known to the U. S. Public as Washington Crossing the Delaware. Yet not until last week did Manhattan's Ferargil Galleries succeed in borrowing American Gothic from the Art Institute of Chicago, Dinner for Threshers...
...Silas Barnaby kidnaps one of the Three Little Pigs and plants a string of sausages in Tom-Tom's house to make it appear that Tom-Tom is guilty of the crime. Tom-Tom is sentenced to exile in Bogey-land but before its inhabitants?miniature King-Kongs with pitchfork teeth?have time to destroy him, the villagers of Toyland discover the real culprit. This leads first to a heroic rescue of Tom-Tom by Ollie and Stannie and finally to a war in which the bogeys are decimated by a regiment of wooden soldiers...