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...been farmers, moonshiners, preachers and feudists. His father was an impoverished and illiterate coal miner. But young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages 11 to 15, Stuart eventually-following circus and steel mill stints...
...running for the prestigious post in Paris are Under Secretary of State Livingston Merchant and two retired Army generals who blasted the Eisenhower Administration defense policies: onetime Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor and onetime Research and Development Chief James Gavin. Merchant will definitely pluck some plum, if not the Paris embassy then another major one. Among several contenders for the ambassadorship to Japan are John D. Rockefeller III, Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and Jeffrey Parsons, who is likely to be replaced as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs by U. Alexis Johnson, at present Ambassador...
...monks now turn out 27 flavors (e.g., pineapple-mint, rhubarb-orange, damson plum) in a factory on their 2,300-acre property, work in shifts from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. over the steaming vats. The jellies are distributed in all 50 states and in Canada by Heublein, Inc. (packaged cocktails). They sell for slightly more than similar jellies. "We have a fair markup," says Father John Holohan, St. Joseph's subprior (who has permission to talk because he must confer with "the outside world"). "We have never wanted to take advantage of our free labor...
...intensify emotion, as if nature were pounding upon raw nerves. Kirchner used quick, jagged strokes that gave his paintings a staccato rhythm. His long and pointed figures had a certain elegance, but they were also painfully intense. As for color, Kirchner sometimes seemed wholly arbitrary: a face could be plum purple or brown; a sidewalk could be candy pink or apple green. The whole idea was to enhance the mood...
Rare is the man who has gone home from a Chicago convention without some choice memento locked in his suitcase of memories. For one middle-aged Texas oilman recently, it was the long, goose-pimpled wait for a rendezvous with a $50 floozy in a plum-colored parlor; for a life-insurance salesman from New Jersey, it was a harmless evening in an elegant and naughty North-Side Key Club; for a mackinawed Dakota farmer back in 1906, it was a dinner at the old Saratoga Hotel, where after ordering a fancy city dish called oysters on the half shell...