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Gypsy Smith was born in England, 79 years ago, in a tent under a hornbeam tree. Until he was 18, he never slept in a house. A peddler of clothespins which his father, a Christianized gypsy, carved of hornbeam wood, Rodney Smith taught himself to read from a Bible and a dictionary. Under the hornbeam tree he preached his first faltering homily. To the same tree he returned four years ago, a falterer no longer, to preach to 12,000 people. By that time, he estimated, 40,000,000 had heard him-as a Salvation Army recruit under William Booth...
...Real name: Chief Big Tree. He is one of the two Iroquois Indians found by 20th Century-Fox in Hollywood. The other was considered too fat and short to impersonate an Indian...
...Merry-Go-Round." The more inventive Nazi guards at Buchenwald, according to the White Paper, have a game they play with prisoners and trees: "If only a slight offense has been committed, the prisoners would be bound to a tree in such a way that they stood facing it and as if embracing it with their hands pinioned together. The straps that bound them would be pulled so tight that they could barely move. Guards would now 'play merry-go-round' with them. That is, they would force them to make their way round and round the tree...
...Civil Aeronautics Authority gives him a chance to get younger men off the ground, try to teach them to stay up. One morning a scary youngster freezes the controls, then while Brad is righting the plane, gracefully bails out. Brad later finds him, somewhat battered, dangling from a tree over a canyon. In rescuing the boy he falls himself, breaks both legs. A lad who has never before been alone at the controls pilots Brad's plane and the two injured men out of the canyon, pancakes safely, though not before part of his landing gear falls...
Some of the other houses on Malone's pilgrimage are maintained as shrines, some are not. Joyce Kilmer's, at New Brunswick, N. J., owned by the American Legion, has nary a tree on the place. Stephen Crane's in Newark was being torn down; Malone got it a reprieve until December. Philip Freneau's near Matawan, N. J. is for sale: $35,000 with his grave; $29,000 without it. Most rousing hospitality awaits the Pilgrim at Joaquin Miller's cabin, The Wigwam, outside Oakland, Calif. There the poet's ardent daughter, Juanita...