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...name summons up fond and durable memories: the gum-chewing philosopher of humor, the man of homely common sense that somehow added up to uncommon wisdom. Out of it he fashioned not one, but a half-dozen careers-rodeo bronco rider, walk-on humorist (before the phrase had even been invented), Ziegfeld Follies headliner, movie star, radio commentator, newspaper columnist -a one-man galaxy of talent. He lives again on the stage of Washington, D.C.'s Ford Theatre in a gifted recreation by James Whitmore in a show appropriately titled Will Rogers' U.S.A...
Jumping from bridges is uncommon here -less than a dozen a year-and this type of death is never called an accident. Indeed, a current misconception that suicide is high among blacks as compared with whites in Manhattan is because blacks prefer jumping from buildings which can be classified as suicidal immediately. Whites prefer taking sleeping pills which can be determined only after chemical analyses, usually too late for inclusion in vital statistics...
...crowded into outdoor feed lots with only 200 sq. ft. of living space. Feed lots, where livestock is scientifically bred and fattened for slaughter, were rare in the early 1950s. Now there are 256,000 for cattle alone, and a single facility containing 50,000 head is not uncommon. Since these feed lots are concentrated near cities, transporting manure for fertilizer to rural areas is not economical...
...there are umbrellas, which the girl collects and cares for by keeping them furled in the rain and open in sunshine. Why is " 'brella" one of the 200 words that come in an unmodulated rush from the cave of her near total silence? West speculates with uncommon insight: "When the 'brella's up you're overjoyed by its capacity for coming down, and when it's rolled and fastened you're overjoyed by what it's just been, what it can again be after a couple of simple shoves...
Galopin also reported that Arab women were paraded naked in public and lashings were not uncommon for Arabs who committed insidemeanors. In addition, only black Christians and animists from the south were name I to prefectures in the north; tribal chiefs who had long held judicial powers in their oases were ousted by Tombalbaye's officials...