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...Medicine, the story of how a small-town doctor in Missouri diagnosed his son's illness by reading a letter from him, and saved his life...
...Cape Cod Lighter, by John O'Hara. The author writes better than ever of heels and down-at-the-heels in Gibbsville. Pa., and small-town New Jersey in this collection of short stories...
...stock sale eased Green Bay's finances, but now the Packers suffered from another, more obstinate ailment: anemia on the football field. Feeding on heftier bankrolls, the big-city teams-the New York Giants. Los Angeles Rams. Cleveland Browns. Detroit Lions-ruled the league. Starting in 1948. the small-town Packers went eleven years without a winning season. In 1958. they won only one game Tout of twelve). Things got so bad that Green Bay youngsters tore up their autograph books and Packer coaches wisely left their telephones off the hook. "A small town." says Coach Harland Svare...
...dirt in this one is really pretty yeasty. Small-town middle-aged Massachusetts family of Life With Father dad, harried mom, newly-wed daughter, boobish son-in-law. Nothing too new there, admittedly, but then mom gets pregnant. And dad gets the gags. Mem: Aren't you excited? happy? [or words to that effect] Doesn't it remind you of a poem? Dad (de-spondently): I shot an arrow into...
...offices on Madison Avenue. Some are the lengthened shadow of one man: Manhattan's research-minded Interpublic Inc. pursues the sociological bent of indefatigable Marion Harper, a complex Ivy Leaguer, while Chicago's Leo Burnett Co. reflects the down-to-earth outlook of Founder Burnett, a Michigan small-town boy who once worked as an $18-a-week reporter for the Peoria Journal. Other agencies, such as New York's J. Walter Thompson and Philadelphia's N. W. Ayer & Son, are true corporate enterprises, scarcely different in spirit from General Motors or Procter & Gamble. Among them...