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Popeye. In Salem, Mass., suing Benjamin Pope Marion for divorce, Nancy Rice Marion, 29, testified that he put her over his knee, spanked her, poured a bottle of beer over her head to "cool her off" because the spinach she served him for dinner had not been chopped...
...Salem Lutheran Church...
Struggle for Power. To Doug McKay, there is no public-power issue. In 1932 he was president of the Salem Public Ownership League; he has long supported local public power, and he insists: "Public power is here to stay." The real issue is federal power, which is very different-and which has increased from less than 1% of the nation's total in 1935 to more than 13% last year...
...House & a Lot. In South Salem, McKay has a roomy, comfortable white shake house. One daughter lives there and another six blocks away. In the front hall is the familiar motto: "Home is where the heart is." Every room has some souvenir of McKay's life: a seal tusk, Eugene Peavine's trophies, family photos. Downstairs, in the basement playroom, hang Mabel McKay's blue ribbons (for cake), McKay's show ribbons (for Gene) and silly signs ("Danger-Hangover Under Construction...
...admires), to the enormous Ickes office (which he dislikes) and to his problems: reclamation and recreation, field and stream, parks and power-above all, power. He has no ambition beyond making a success of the Eisenhower program and of his job. "I've got a house in Salem and a lot in the cemetery, so I'll be coming home some day," he assures his friends...