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Perish to Death. A Kentucky Baptist preacher's son, Channing Cope went to sea at 15 and didn't get his shore legs back until he was 26; later he was by turns pressagent, lawyer, radio broadcaster and farmer. When Cope put down his first payment on rundown, worn-out Yellow River Farm in 1927, the county agent predicted that he would "perish to death" before he got a living out of it; now, with hired hands doing the work, Cope nets $11,000 a year...
...like going back into another century when John and Mary explored the faded old white house where the handset, rundown Journal had been published for decades. Blocking their way was a weird jumble of cardboard boxes, auto parts, dried nuts, empty jars, tin cans and old metal. In a stack of unopened letters...
...Urban re-development means rennovation of rundown city areas such as Boston's downtown district. The hitch in such a program is that neither private enterprise nor the city can afford to pay for the tearing down of old buildings, the land on which new buildings are to be constructed, and the construction of the new buildings themselves. Hence federal and state funds are needed...
Italy reported a rise in industrial production and stabilization of the lira. Britain's rundown industrial machine was gradually winding up again. In two months, production in Western Germany climbed 20%, bringing it to 60% of the 1936 level. More important, Ruhr iron and steel production set a new postwar record...
...rundown sounds like the preview for a soap-opera sequence. Will Nick Rodis' weak knee stand up under hard running? Will the injured bone in Chuck Glynn's hand heal? What effect will Jim Kenary's appendectomy have on his football future? Will Chip Gannon and Tom Guthrie be able to catch up on the fundamentals they have missed...