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Kansans began importing greyhounds 65 years ago to rid their lands of jack rabbits. Now Kansas raises more greyhounds than any other state. In it dwell 67% of National Coursing Association members. The springy sod of Abilene's Coursing Park, best in the land, was selected after soil tests in 20 Kansas towns. Last autumn the park was planted with barley. Last fortnight it was mowed down to a bright green turf; a space 450 yd. long and 200 yd. wide was fenced by wire. Every day last week 1,000 to 5,000 spectators went to the park...
...insidious indifference. Long enough has Williams been merely a 'gentleman's college,' for lack of any more vital purpose. None of these outworn epitaphs of an intellectual graveyard does the "Record" intend to extol simply for their own sakes. It is high time that to the weedy, run-down sod we apply not a roller, but a plowshare, in the hope of encouraging some new and greener vegetation...
...their semi-annual convention in Manhattan, members of the National Puzzlers' League teased one another's brains for three days with: an anagram for "a counterfeit nickel" (solution: "Notice, fake lucre, tin"); a transdeletion or progressive anagram from '"sod" to "countryside" in eleven changes; a rebus of an H written inside a G, both over a W (since it is The H and writ in G on the W all, the solution is: "The handwriting on the wall"); and interminable alphagrams, charades, transposals, cryptograms, rhomboids, antigrams, palindromes, inverted pyramids and plain puzzles. Outstanding contribution was a "seventeen...
Under the sod...
...into Carrollton, Ky. one day last week to help celebrate Carrollton's first annual tobacco festival. They guffawed when a big black hearse lumbered into position at the head of a half-mile parade. Emblazoned on its side was the legend: OLD TOBACCO PRICES-SIX FEET UNDER THE SOD. To the blare of a 40-piece band they marched through the business streets of Carrollton to the Henry County Tobacco Warehouse. When somebody yelled "C'mon folks, the burgoo's ready!" they broke ranks, stampeded for the warehouse platform...