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...highway. His facile French got him a ride from a French-Canadian who could not see the German tunic under his passenger's civilian greatcoat. Soon Franz von Werra was in Ottawa. There he begged a road map from a filling station, hitched a ride to somnolent Prescott. All that lay between him and freedom was the broad St. Lawrence. But at that point the river was not frozen over. After dark Werra stole a rowboat, paddled across to Ogdensburg, N. Y. There he was picked up by police on the tip of a suspicious service-station operator...
...Lanning Prescott Budd, born in 1899, son of the European sales manager of Budd Gunmakers, lives on the Riviera with his delicious mother, Beauty Budd, nee Mabel Blackless. A symbolic opening scene shows young Lanny dancing in a Dalcroze festival in Germany, in 1913-the dance being an interpretation in "Eurythmics," the rage of the time, of the triumph of music over the furies of Hell in Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Before the real furies set sail over Europe the following summer, Lanny visits charming upper-class friends in England and Germany, glimpses the squalor of the lower...
...product of the bustling, big-town press room, Out Our Way is penned day after day on an isolated ranch near Prescott, Ariz., by a lanky, grey-eyed cattle rancher named James Robert Williams. There, dressed in old blue jeans and riding boots, Jim Williams rides with his ranch hands over 45,000 acres of juniper-dotted Arizona range country, wrangling, bulldogging, branding, rounding up about 600 head of white-faced Hereford cattle...
...about his green alfalfa fields, hunts a little, and thinks up ideas for Out Our Way. When he has a batch of drawings finished (he has a hard time keeping ahead of his deadline) he ships them off in a swanky Cadillac 40 miles over rutted dirt roads to Prescott, where they are mailed to the NEA syndicate headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio...
...post card addressed to Tihany at 85 Prescott Street, Cambridge arrived yesterday almost half a year after it was mailed in Chicago by a friend during the last Christmas rush...