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Edie's hard-hitting column often sounds libelous. But apparently she has the facts behind her strongest innuendos, because no one has ever sued. Yet she rarely checks an item. If someone gives her a wrong steer, she crosses the tipster's name off her list. She is more often in bad taste than in hot water. For syndication, Edie blue-pencils double-meaning quips and purely local items (sample kill: "A starlet is worried that her husband has been untrue. Her baby doesn't look a bit like...
...Gene Cinnamon, 19, a shy boy with a big grin, from Garber, Okla., was named 1947 Star Farmer of America (prize: $1,000). Ray Gene has been showing prize-winning livestock at the Royal show for the past seven years. In 1944 his entry took the grand champion steer award, which, together with two other prize-winning animals, netted him more than $9,000. That year Ray Gene had to call in an accountant to help on his income...
...ride over, Ray Gene took quick leave and ducked back to the livestock stalls. There, as he polished the coat of his Hereford steer, he relaxed and talked about past F.F.A. conventions. "I got married last April," he said, "so I have to stay in a hotel with the wife this year. Always before when I came to the Royal I bunked right here with the cattle. It's hard to be away from the cattle...
Baudelaire's parents tried to check his dissipations and steer him into a commercial career, but succeeded only in drawing him from respectability into the Latin Quarter. He was soon living in wild extravagance with a "saucer-eyed" mulatto prostitute and seeking in absinthe and opium an antidote to what he considered the horrors of the Steam Age. He was, he wrote, a victim of "Acedia, the malady of monks," the deadly weakness of the will which leads to sloth and idleness. He fought against it with terror, filled his Journals with resolves to "work like a madman...
There, surrounded by steer horns and bottles that once held "Judge" Roy Bean's beer, he wrote books of folklore that made him the Southwest's most raucously successful cultural historian ("The lies I tell are authentic"). On his door hung a sign: "Office Hours: Irregular...