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...Langdon, N.H., on the other hand, citizens disregarded their pocketbooks. Rather than spoil their 79-year-old covered bridge by remodeling it to meet state specifications for roadway bridges, the townsmen voted to build a new bridge and to keep the old one intact for its sentimental value...
...folks-are-folks tradition, meeting-goers blocked three successive motions by the town's best-known son: Bible-quoting U.S. Senator Charles Tobey of TV fame. Only on his fourth motion, a proposal to spend $2,000 for snow removal in 1953, did the Senator win his fellow townsmen's ayes. He did not seem to mind being voted down; in his half-century of town meetings, he has grown used to such treatment...
Although Beck showed little of his rebounding skill, his remarkable, rapid passing set up more than enough points to offset the lack. While a crowd of his townsmen from nearby Fairhaven cheered him on, Penn's Bar Leach scored 13 points...
Cincinnati last week showed the U.S. how to put on a new opera in English for operatic pin money. With a budget of $9,000 (mostly for sets, etc.) and a cast of home-town talent, townsmen rolled up their sleeves and mounted a three-acter by U.S. Composer Vittorio Giannini, based on Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew...
...farmers and townsmen of Ottawa County streamed out of the fairgrounds at Marne, Mich, one day last fortnight, they came upon a handsome, square-shouldered man wearing a big, green, polka dot bow tie and a wide, bright, boyish grin. He stood astride the main exit, reaching out to shake hands with all who would come within his grasp. The smile and the green bow tie identified him as Gerhard Mennen Williams, governer of Michigan. "Look," murmured one woman to another as they pressed by, "he's getting grey hair already...