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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andy's Hotel (prop. Andrew Knutson) used to be the place to go in Oklee, Minn, pop. (510). A good deal of its charm lay in its restaurant, where the innkeeper's blonde, comely wife Cornelia Knutson cooked hearty food, waited cheerfully on tables and made the guests feel right at home. But no longer: in 1954, popular "Coya" Knutson, long active in Minnesota's Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party, ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, visited every farm in northwest Minnesota's Ninth District, won, and went off to Washington. With Coya gone, the hotel...
...Opera House and Lucius Beebe's Territorial Enterprise. Around Reno, candidates for grass widowhood whiled away their residence on dude ranches. Along Las Vegas' gaudy Strip, vacationers pumped the slot machines and queued up for ten-course $1.25 lunches. And at a state convention in Hawthorn (pop. 3,700), Nevada's Democratic Party was practically taken over lock, stock and barrel by one of the most remarkable new figures in U.S. politics: Errett Lobban Cord, sometime Wall Street tycoon and longtime millionaire recluse, now turned glad-handing vote chaser...
...Attorney General William P. Rogers, referring to current congressional attempts to limit jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court (see The Congress): "There have been periods in our history when the 'kill the umpire' attitude made considerable headway, and many pop bottles have been thrown at our courts in the past. Fortunately, except in minor ways, the legislature has never taken these attacks seriously enough to alter the judicial system or retaliate against the judiciary...
...rate of any other major city in the country. It ranks high in alcoholism and in the consumption of alcohol. One out of two of its marriages end in divorce, which is a much higher rate than the national average. There are only 40,000 Protestants* in San Francisco [pop. 814,000], and it has probably the lowest church attendance of any major city...
...Whenever there are runners on the bases and a righthanded batter steps up," wrote Red Smith in his syndicated sports column, "a sense of impending doom settles upon the multitude. Fear grips the pitcher. Panic stalks the stands. Maybe the batter will pop the ball harmlessly into the stratosmog, but the threat of a shattering home run is always imminent...