Word: townes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Queen, Ark., home town of State Auditor Oscar Humphrey, who is armless, three Democratic candidates are campaigning for the office of tax assessor: Ed Lee Cox, Ed Shipman, Cathell Hendricks, each minus his left...
...Terror of Tiny Town (Jed Buell). "If this economy drive keeps on, we'll end up using midgets for actors." To hefty, thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from...
...reputation of the educator it should be pointed out that he has to handle a pretty solid phalanx of problem children.* The home influence is very bad in the case of many Groton boys. The lads are largely overnourished, overclad and burdened with the handicap of both town and country houses...
Back in 1918, when Ruth McKenney was six and her sister Eileen was five, the movie matinees of Mishawaka. Ind., were a big thing in the lives of the children of the town. They lasted all afternoon, cost only a nickel, and showed a new installment of a serial every day. Since few of the audience could read, childish riots, peanut fights, screams and free-for-alls broke out when subtitles were too long. The fun lasted until the operator switched on the lights and bawled: "Shut up, you brats, or I'll throw you all out." Ruth...
...DIRECT - Alice Tilton-Norton ($2). Complications, amusing rather than terrifying, beginning in a small town near Boston when someone tries to run over Leonidas Witherall, ex-professor and amateur sleuth who looks like Shakespeare. Good midsummer reading...