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Observant and curious, he pasted in a scrapbook every picture postcard that came to the Pyle house. And he had a solid respect for facts. As a schoolboy, assigned to write a composition about a visit to the county courthouse, he reported; "Many interesting statistics were brought out in the examination of the assessment sheets. It was found that Old Dobbin has completely succumbed to the invasion of the automobile. The total value of horses listed in the county is $297,096, while that of automobiles is $398,322. The average horse is worth a fraction less than...
...underground's 140 clandestine newspapers-some printed in postcard size, others on finest imported stock-circulate perilously from hand to hand. They print Winston Churchill's speeches the day after their delivery. Through these newspapers the four Polish parties (Nationalist, Polish Socialist, Peasant, National Labor), which give allegiance to the London Cabinet, carry on political debate. Most of the home press stands left of the London émigrés, talks of land reform, opposes any return of feudalistic privilege...
...Gotch, on a postcard...
...huge mass meetings in some 100 cities from coast to coast. The meetings will be all-day affairs. Says the Crusade handbook: "Special attention will be given to music and singing and maintaining a high spiritual atmosphere during the entire program." At each meeting everyone will be given a postcard reproduction of the Christy painting. Then & there Methodists will take out their pens, address the cards to men in the armed forces, telling them that the people at home stand for a new world order, that religion must dominate the peace table...
...could never to any of us be just a postcard picture. ... It was something alive that played an important part in our existence. . . . It is a superb observation point, of course, and the Germans had placed a sound detector and searchlight at one place, and four of them had used the Cook's Hotel halfway up for observation and radio transmission...