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...Douglass Welch, 61, portly good-humor man, whose nationally syndicated column, "The Squirrel Cage," appeared in 32 newspapers around the country; of a heart attack; in Seattle. With a combination of humor and an acid pen, Welch attacked the wrongs of the world, created "Happy" Digby, whose bouts with small-town authority were followed by Saturday Evening Post readers for more than 14 years...
...dropping in on five different states in a single day. Reporters trying to keep up with them can get lost in a tangle of datelines. "Did he say that in Reno or Redwood City? Did he really make a speech in Manhattan, Kansas?" Files often get delayed in small-town telegraph offices...
...from his present job in Indiana to work his old home state. Jerry Bruno, who had run Kennedy's office in Syracuse, N.Y., supervises the candidate's advance work, attempting to get the widest possible exposure with as much drama as possible. Kennedy and entourage roll up to a small-town school. No one is in sight. Will he be photographed being greeted by no one? Hardly. At the proper moment, kids stream on cue from every door, engulfing the candidate, filling the lenses. After stumping a city, the staff sometimes prepares an exhaustive written critique on what went right?...
That many Southern Democratic leaders and Northern businessmen should want to become part of Humphrey's design astounds those who remember him as the symbol of ultra-liberal factionalism. But Humphrey has been more accommodated than accommodating. Son of a small-town South Dakota pharmacist who loved politics, people and poetry, he grew up in farm country where the Depression came early and stayed long. Hubert Horatio Sr., the "town rebel," the Democratic chairman of Republican Spink County who joshed about his wife's being "politically unreliable" (she voted for Harding and Coolidge), the kind of father who sat Junior...
...this short caper, set in today's Rhineland, a German army Jeep is burned by an intelligent young soldier with the active help of his equally intelligent father. The act is deliberate and they offer no defense at their trial. German courtroom justice, the army, the press and small-town morality are all lethally and satirically observed. The criminals come off well because even their apparently senseless act makes more sense than the system. Burning the Jeep is a Happening, a symbolic work of art. Their point, and Boll's, is plain: sane men are beginning to find...