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...Need Your He'p." As the campaign party moved through Los Angeles and San Francisco, Estes Kefauver seemed as placid and happy as ever-but inwardly he was beginning to boil. Campaigning with Adlai was all right, but the closely timed schedule sort of cramped Kefauver's style. He wanted to get out by himself and start beating the bushes, taking all the time he needed to shake every hand he could find. He means to do everything that energy and ambition can accomplish to win the election. The Vice President's chair is not quite what...
...foreign breeds that were trickling into the country as early as 1783: first the Shorthorn (Durham), then the Hereford and the Aberdeen Angus from Britain, and from India the hardy Brahman. But no breed possessed all virtues. The Shorthorn-for a time the most popular-is massive and placid but critics say it suffers from heat and a tendency to sterility. The white-faced Hereford-its successor and still the leading U.S. breed-is hailed by many ranchers as a hardy forager and the best beef animal in the world. But other cowmen complain that it is prone to some...
Died. Francis Tyler, 51, burly helmsman of the No. 2 U.S. bobsled team that took first place in the 1948 Olympics at St. Moritz; of a heart attack; in Lake Placid...
When his work took him south to the U.S., Pop Johannsen helped lay out trails around Lake Placid; soon his services were in demand wherever a North American ski resort was being laid out. Busy as he was, Johannsen never lost his zest for competition. At 60 he finished second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace...
...James Farl) Powers, 38, likes to explore a placid world that stirs with life only after some trifling event breaks up the humdrum of routine. It is the parochial world of pastors, curates and their parishioners. The mocked and pitied heroes of Powers' short stories are usually worldly U.S. Roman Catholic priests who have mislaid their sense of vocation in the hubbub of parish politics, bingo socials and Legion of Decency campaigns. Illinois-born and Catholic-reared. Author Powers brings an unsparing eye and a spare style to the subject of priestly frailty, but writes with enough basic compassion...