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...Banks arrived from Riverside, Calif, in 1925. With him he brought his second wife, two new Cadillacs, 40 suits of custom-made clothes, and a million dollars netted from the sale of citrus orchards in Southern California. Baldish, spectacled, with high cheek bones, Banks struck Oregon like a tornado. He became the largest single owner of pear orchards in the state, bought the Medford News, boldly declared himself a candidate for the U. S. Senate against Senator Charles L. McNary, stumped the State in an automobile with California license plates. He failed to carry a single precinct, but his name...
...three bullets each into him and his confederate, but the Post went smashing on. Everyone knows the two famous bylines "Crime Never Pays" and "It is a Privilege to Live in Colorado," of which the first headed each account of the police court, the second every tale of distant tornado or disaster. And high in the history of the headline are Bonfils' own gems, the first, five inches tall, to commemorate a minor psychological convention, screamed out, "Does it Hurt to be Born?"; the second appeared when the round the world flyers were pulled out of the sea off Hawaii...
...Vermilion Sea), Juan fraternized with the pearl fishers, swallowed many a fish story. Besides mermaids, these fishermen were in great dread of the ojon, a large, flat fish with a single eye in its back, which had to be treated with excessive politeness or it would start a tornado. Said one of them: "I have come home from a Gulf trip so weak with suppressed rage at enforced politeness to an ojon, that I nearly died before I could pick a fight with some land dawdler or beat my wife about a trifle!" The Admiral of these pearl-fishers took...
...Curry and Henry Varnum Poor. Chunky, corn-fed John Steuart Curry is Kansas' gift to the arts (TIME, April 10). Growing yearly in reputation and ability, Painter Curry's solid, exciting canvases of life on the prairies have been widely shown, generously bought by all but Kansans. "Tornado," the canvas that won him $1,000 last week, shows a Kansas family diving for a storm cellar as a dusty horn of wind sweeps in from the darkened horizon. On its first showing in an exhibition arranged by jovial William Allen White, onetime Governor Henry J. Allen...
...sponsored a show of Curry's Kansas pictures in Wichita. Kansans found "drab" his best-known picture, Baptism in Kansas, which Manhattan's Whitney Museum will send to the Chicago Century of Progress. They found "unnecessary"' his wild Hogs Killing a Rattlesnake. They found uncivic his Tornado, showing Kansans scuttling into a cyclone cellar as a giant cornucopia of wind marches across the darkened prairie. Said Elsie J. Nuzman Allen, art-collecting wife of Kansas' onetime Governor Henry Justin Allen: ". . . Cyclones, gospel trains, the medicine man, the man hunt, are certainly to be found in Kansas...