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Kenneth T. Dinklage, of 1219 Grand Ave., Topeka, Kansas, a graduate of Topeka High School...
Offensive. In Topeka, Kans., postmen, who take barks and bites along their routes in their stride, were justifiably annoyed when a small, impatient dog invaded the post office, bit a letter carrier...
Harry Hines Woodring of Topeka, Kans. is a man who loves nice things. As a private citizen, he likes tatting, antiques, and the view from his front porch, with its pleasant shrubbery and small lake. As a politician, he doesn't care to associate with the hoarse, beefy men of the smoke-filled hotel rooms...
Maybe rough-&-tough Charles Rooney should have known this. When Rooney, a red-faced, burly Irishman, returned from the Army to his Topeka law practice last spring, he thought he heard a call to arms. Harry Woodring was running for the Democratic nomination for Governor and was making a vigorous attack on Kansas' much-flouted dry law (TIME, Sept. 9). Rooney put up some campaign money ("If my wife knew how much, she'd file lunacy proceedings"), tapped his friends for more, and became Woodring's primary campaign manager...
Last week a deed was filed in Topeka, giving title to a piece of land 454 ft. wide and 180 ft. deep. The property ran almost up to the Woodring front porch and bisected the small lake. The buyer: Charles Rooney...