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...Zinder came a note from George D. Beacham, which was published in TIME'S Letters column. In his letter, Reader Beacham explained that he was soon to be married to a girl who, like him, is a missionary, that they were fascinated by the description of the new stove, and concluded: "More power to Westinghouse and Betty, but right now I'll look for the forgotten kerosene range and know that my bride will be very happy...
...Reader Beacham: "You and readers of TIME may be interested to know that after my letter to you was published. the subject was not finished. Aside from letters and folders from enterprising and quick advertisers, I was also presented with two kerosene ranges as wedding gifts, one from a stove company in Cleveland and another from a company in Connecticut. I have heard of 'the American way of life.' This involves many things and is probably very difficult, if possible, to define. However, such reactions to my letter to TIME are, to me, part of that great definition...
...opponent. Donated to 200 preachers, gave 4,000 fans to churches. Gave away one bull, eight shoats, seven head of sheep to barbecues; gave away two pairs of suspenders, five calico dresses, five dolls and 15 baby rattles, kissed 150 babies, kindled 25 fires, put up 14 cook stoves, cut 15 cords of stove wood, promised twelve pups-the old female had only six. Carried 75 buckets of water, picked 25 gallons of blackberries, hauled 100 bags of dairy feed, unloaded 20 tons of lime; shook hands 9,000 times, told 500 lies, talked enough to make 10,000 volumes...
When Thuringian workers were being egged on to revolt against the Weimar Republic in 1923, Walter Ulbricht was one of two Reds who doomed them by persuading Moscow that they needed no arms, "because every Thuringian worker already has a rifle behind his stove." When untrue rumors began to drift to Moscow in the '20s about the intelligentsia, which had assumed command of the German party, Zinoviev, the boss of the Comintern, went to the files, found that all the adverse reports had been signed by Comrade Ulbricht. When Moscow decided in 1925 that the German party must...
...southwestern plains of the U.S., weather as hot and dry as a kitchen stove lid is an accepted part of life. West Texans like to say that when the great deluge flooded the world and Noah took to the ark, West Texas had half an inch of rain. But last week the Southwest was not in a joking mood. In Texas and parts of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Colorado, dry weather had turned to drought and drought was turning to disaster...