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...Overton, Neb. any outsider who dared to bid at the foreclosure sale on Mike Thinnes' farm was threatened with a ducking in the horse trough at the hands of 200 farmer friends. Mrs. Thinnes bought in cows for 10? horses for 2?, tractors for 50?-at total cost...
...hogs are judged in a show ring where they are paraded skillfully. Never in Iowa would they suffer the injustice of being judged in their pens the way Phil Stong relates. State Fair is interesting-and accurate in describing the way a Hampshire boar eats out of his trough-but it is not sharp, exact detail of Iowa hog technique, a very important element in rural Iowa. KENNETH HINSHAW...
...prized by his fellow Norwegians (many of whom read him in English translation rather than in his difficult Landsmaal dialect) he is reported to have missed a Nobel Prize by one vote. The circulation of his Juviking books in the U. S. has left a large market untapped: The Trough of the Wave sold 1,063, The Blind Man 556, The Big Wedding 372. Not discouraged, Publisher Knopf will wind up the saga with Youth, The Storm...
During the midnight hours while the S. S. Dumbea swelters through the tropic heat of the Suez Canal, two sweat-drenched passengers turn in their steamer-chairs, begin to talk. One is a U. S. scientist, Joel, the other an Anglican missionary priest. As befits the steaming trough, bordered by desert horizons, in which they find themselves, their talk treats of life's early beginnings, Man's ends and possible...
...when a wheel of the tank-tender broke out of line. None was injured. At Princeton Junction, N. J. the Pennsylvania's westbound Red Arrow sloughed across three tracks at 45 m. p. h. when the locomotive's water scoop failed to rise properly from the track trough. Injured...