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GAINESVILLE, GA., which numbers 11,936 people, fixed itself a quota of $34,528. On its streets last week, practically every electric power and telephone pole bore Red Feather placards and the slogan "Give." Over the two local radio stations, at 30-minute intervals, sounded one loud knock, then seven more knocks, and finally a voice saying, "You'd rather have your door knocked once than seven times, wouldn't you? Give to the Community Chest!" (The knocks referred to the seven local agencies for which funds were being sought...
Three new examples of Hollywood's staple commodity, the horse opera, all filmed in color, contain the full quota of galloping and gunplay...
...suddenly lost in her eyes): The night inspired me to overfulfill my quota by a higher and still higher percentage...
...people-Sam Weller, Sairey Gamp, Bill Sikes, Barkis, Mrs. Gummidge, for a few-though they have been in a century's deep freeze, are still succulent with life. Though literary immortality is as chancy as other sorts, it looks as though Joyce Cary has already added his quota to fiction's Valhalla: Gulley Jimson, Sara Monday. Mister Johnson, Tom Wilcher. Last week he added two more: Chester Nimmo and Nina...
Three boards were established to arbitrate the selection. They proved to be unnecessary, however, when the new order came through and enough men dropped out to meet the quota...