Word: popping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roswell (pop. 25,000) was a sleepy little cow town when Hurd was a kid. He left it for two happy but unbrilliant years at West Point, later spent five years with the late Illustrator N.C. Wyeth, at Chadds Ford, Pa., learning to paint. Hurd married Wyeth's artist daughter Henriette, then moved back to New Mexico, where the Kurds and their three children have taken joyfully to ranch life. Says Hurd, who has gone on painting junkets to Egypt, Hawaii, Nigeria, India, England, Italy, Brazil and Morocco: "It just happens that this part of the planet is where...
Poverty & Progress. All this grew from a single store which 27-year-old James Cash Penney started 47 years ago in the mining town of Kemmerer, Wyo. (pop. 1,000). Young Penney, frail and ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...
...Mole Hill, W. Va. (pop. 93) changed its name to Mountain...
...village of Een (pop. 900) used to be just another quiet hamlet in the northern Netherlands. By last week Een had become a bustling mecca for 1,500 once desperate, now hopeful people. Bicycles were stacked up against a lilac tree in the village; cars from every Dutch province thronged the narrow main road. Rich or poor, they all came to be treated by Een's Wonderkapper (miracle barber), who grows hair on bald heads...
...Like many another country editor, stocky, aggressive Charles Allen Crowder writes almost all the stories in his twice-weekly Sentinel himself; his wife Dorothy and their 15-year-old son Charles Jr. (whose column is called "Crowder's Chowder") do the rest. In reporting the news of Flora (pop. 6,000) and Republican Clay County, Republican Editor Crowder says he sometimes "plays up what the business interests want played down...