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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inhabitants knew him by sight. He was affable and talkative, gave his name as Reynolds Rogers. He bought a pair of blue overalls, put on an old sweater and cap, cut himself a tall staff and began taking walks in the hills. He built a lookout in a tree on a knoll, a rude altar on another hillside. People living in the same boarding house with him understood he was prospecting for gold, came from "up Kentucky way." Reynolds Rogers attended the County Republican convention, made speeches in which he said he was an intimate of Presidents Roosevelt and Hoover...
...summer & autumn Albert R. Brand has been roving the hills of New Jersey and southern New York. Before dawn he would drive his truck up beside a pre-selected tree or fence, bear to it a small, cable-attached object, then retreat to wait, watch, listen. Once he put his '"trap" on the limb where a song sparrow came each dawn to serenade his nesting mate; once near a beer barrel which a whippoorwill had chosen for its nightly concert stage...
...short runway of an uncompleted airport. Spirit of Fun struck a tree, killed Pilot Dickson, injured Passengers Loew and Rosthal...
...Gibson, chairman for the second year of New York City's Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, formally opened its $15,000,000 drive. His business & professional sub-committees working smoothly. Chairman Gibson went home to his Long Island estate, rode out on a foxhunt, collided with a hanging tree branch. Blood streaming down his face, he hurried to a physician, had the wound stitched up, finished the hunt...
...novel, The Time of Man, have continued to bow gravely in her direction. Unmarried, calm, grave, handsome, Authoress Roberts, 46, lives at Perryville, Ky., plans to write many another grave, calm, handsome Kentucky tale. Other books: My Heart & My Flesh, Jingling in the Wind, The Great Meadow, Under the Tree (verse...