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...settled down on a rundown farm near Brattleboro, and asked himself, since he had growing children, why not buy a cow? Once he had a cow, it seemed a shame to buy hay, so Farmer Serkin raised hay. Then it seemed a pity to stop with one cow. Today the farm is a going concern, with 18 head of Guernseys. It is also a place to rest between trips and concerts: 26 U.S. performances this year, 50-odd abroad...
Thomas O'Clare, 79, asking for a divorce, told the court that her husband, 80, caused her great anxiety with his "strong drink and flirtatious ways with other women." Rundown. In Bloomington, Ill., the daily Pantagraph carried this classified ad: "HIGHLY INTELLIGENT fellow . . . lazy, unreliable young man who chews tobacco, has three small children to feed, wants highly paid executive position . . ." Payoff. In Miami, when FBI agents nabbed him, Essex Robinson asked what he was charged with, learned he was wanted for draft evasion, exclaimed: "Oh, is that it? I heard you were after me, so I hurried right...
Some call letters sound like static (KAGH, KARK, KWAK, WZIP, WROK, WOKY), others like Aztec gods (KIXL, KXJK, KXXX), and a few like New Year's Eve (WOOW, WEEI). For the commercially minded, there are KOIN, KASH and KALE. A rundown of Hawaiian stations has the roll of a Polynesian alphabet (KILA, KONA, KIPA, KULA, KANI), and the palm for redundancy goes to Puerto Rico's'monotonous station WWWW...
Rejuvenating as Juscelino's shot-in-the-arm may be for the rundown economy of his whole state, its most startling results strike the eye in Minas' young capital city of Belo Horizonte. It was laid out just 60 years ago as a Washington-like model city on one of the mountainous state's few relatively level patches of land. Now Belo Horizonte is a booming metropolis of more than 400,000, the hub of Juscelino's net of roads and power lines. Its population has doubled in a decade. Beside its 100-ft.-wide streets...
...made head janitor when he devised a way to save the college 10% on cleaning expenses. After graduation he went to work for a creamery, and a year later was made sales manager. In 1927, McClellan decided to go into business for himself; for $10,000 he bought a rundown Los Angeles paint company. His company, which now employs 150, has increased sales in all but two of the years since, this year will gross about...