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Boris Chaliapin has again demonstrated his artistic ability in the Talmadge cover, even in the shack in the background. An}' Southern country boy will easily recognize that the pole arising behind the house is for gourd martins. Enlightened Yankees, how ever, will call it a TV antenna, and will assume that the artist intended to imply that the typical Georgian lives in a shack, plants cotton, surrounds himself with barbed wire, votes for Talmadge, and buys a TV set before house paint...
...That pole behind the shack was not strictly for the birds, but even a TV antenna, if hung with gourds, might make a nestwork for the South's Progne subis, also known as the purple martin...
...Force pilot, after mushing around in a plane so full of creeps that it should have been deadlined long ago, manages to get by an enemy pig, drop an aimable cluster for a shack, and then grease it in without bugging out or buying a farm, would he be likely to be a penguin? Last week non-airmen could find the answer to that question (no) in a special 16,500-word dictionary of fly-talk put out by the Air University. The Air Force not only makes up words and phrases (e.g., brain bucket for crash helmet, raunchy...
...Shack-a direct...
...story gets its special twist from the fact that Baby Doe remained faithful to him to the end. For 36 years after his death she lived on Tabor's last silver property in Leadville, rarely left the place and was found frozen to death there in a dilapidated shack...