Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joined Psi Upsilon, wielded a fire hose and earned a black eye during a battle between his sophomore class and freshmen, ran and lost for president of the junior class. In the Rockefeller tradition he also taught Sunday school, abstained from smoking and the traditional applejack parties in White River Junction and made Phi Beta Kappa as his father had at Brown...
...Michigan before he and his wife moved to the valley, now harvests about 14 tons of potatoes per acre (v. average U.S. yield of eight tons per acre), grows cabbages the size of medicine balls. Another farmer, Wyoming-born Victor Falk, 64, owns 900 acres on the Matanuska River, is raising hogs (1959 target: 700), the first hog yield to be fed on grain stored in the new elevator of the booming ($6,000,000 a year) Matanuska Valley Farmers Cooperating Association. Says Falk: "You can make a living here with the line of least resistance. You can trap, hunt...
Richard Sommer contributes two poems, one on the classical side which is not my side but which of course may bring something to some people, and the other about the St. Croix River. The St. Croix River must be a newsy place, for Richard Sommer has noticed a lot going on there and it is fun to read about it all. Thomas Whitebread writes amusingly of how bourbon may be put to good, if pragmatic, use in "The Use of Bourbon," which is all very well for them that can afford it and apparently he can't because...
...whose reputation for high jinks Barry did his best to uphold. An experienced pilot, he flew over all 114,000 sq. mi. of his state, landed long enough to fall in love with the landscape and the Indian tribes, snap thousands of color pictures, race down the perilous Colorado River in a flatboat-making friends everywhere...
Saturday, July 5. The "blasted British dew" finally let up after two days of continuous drizzle. Hundreds of people sloshed through the ankle-deep mud to the grandstands, where soaked seats sold for three guineas. Hundreds of others, even whole families, perched gingerly on the river banks, peering through binoculars, straining to hear loud-speaker announcements, and giving seemingly apathetic British cheers...