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...managed, however, to make a good impression on some of his colleagues and fellow-townsmen by his generosity and good temper, and his mother exclaimed, after the execution, "Yes, they hanged my saintly Billy! He was a bit of a scamp right enough, but a good son to me; the best of the brood, except Sarah, and no murderer...
Last week New President Richard H. Sullivan joined 500 facultymen, alumni and townsmen at a farewell banquet to Jay special tribute to Griff. But the man to whom they were saying goodbye was not one they would soon forget. When Sullivan solemnly declared, "I shall always be grateful to him," he was speaking lot only for himself but for Reed...
...Iowa's farmers and small townsmen took out their troubles on their Republican Governor Leo Hoegh (TIME, Oct. 22 ), turned the statehouse over to the first Democrat since 1936, Herschel Loveless. Said Hoegh: "This election has been good for Eisenhower, but it has been tough on some of us Ike originals...
...tents and sent dust tides eddying and whirling among them. From the speaker's platform, a sea of humanity stretched away to the rim of the shallow natural basin, where the crowd had gathered. Here, on rolling land near Newton, Iowa, some 80,000 American farmers and townsmen, their wives, kids and relatives assembled last week for the granddaddy of all harvest fairs: the National Field Days, better known as the National Plowing Contest. Now they were giving their attention to their honorary chairman-President Dwight Eisenhower...
...portrait commissions kept dwindling as he labored for months over each painting. His heavy brushstroke and thick overpainting, plus his untidy habit of cleaning brushes on his own clothing, struck his townsmen as uncouth. At 52, Rembrandt was forced to put his house and goods up for auction...