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When word got back to the town that it had been chosen for such dubious distinction, Mel Ruder, 36, founder-editor of the Hungry Horse News, took immediate issue. Himself a consistent reader of TIME since the eighth grade, Ruder decided to conduct an investigation to learn whether Hungry Horse hungered for TIME treatment of the news...
Many others at Hungry Horse in addition to Ruder have been TIME-readers of long standing. Cableway Operator Ben Ostrom, 47, who controls tons of-concrete swinging in a huge bucket a quarter-mile across a canyon, said he has read TIME for 15 or 20 years, even borrowed copies of the Atlantic Edition from friends on a 1947 visit to Norway. Allen Johanneson, with six or seven TiME-reading years, has made a TIME convert of his ex-schoolteacher wife...
...here," wrote Editor Ruder, "we don't think of Hungry Horse as a strange name. After all, we had a construction company representative and Army engineer in the office last weekend from Chattahoochee, Fla., where a dam is being built across the Apalachicola River...
Though Mama sometimes looks at the ruder aspects of life, it still sees them through a romantic haze. Things seldom go absolutely right; they never go irrevocably wrong. For most of Mama's big, fond audience, the family favorite is pig-tailed Dagmar, caught at just the right note of sentiment and practicality by nine-year-old Robin Morgan. In theory, each Mama episode takes up a different member of the family; in practice, Robin often steals the show. Producer Carol Irwin observes with awe that radio-trained Robin has somehow developed a "wonderful sense of timing...
...plebeian spirits did well enough. A few drunks were soon reeling here & there. The dignified staggers of U.S. junior officers drew many a disparaging glance and word from moralizing chauffeurs clustered at the entrance. Only the waiters and bartenders seemed unhappy. As the afternoon wore on they grew progressively ruder, slopping fresh drinks into dirty glasses and brushing away all complaints...