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...Carmel, N.Y. studio one winter morning in 1939, a harried artist packed a portrait into his station wagon and headed for Manhattan. As the car slithered down the slippery lane, one of the doors jounced open and snagged a roadside pine. The door was left behind dangling on the tree as the car sped...
Joaquin Miller's mother claimed that he had been born in a manger, but Joaquin himself always stoutly maintained that it was in "a covered wagon, pointed West." Both had escaped the fact: Joaquin (pronounced Wah-Keen) was actually, born in bed on a farm near Liberty, Ind. in 1837, and never climbed aboard a covered wagon till he was a strapping six-footer of 14. Nonetheless, it was a strangely modest yarn for Miller, who spent a lifetime stretching the truth about himself until it snapped. Famed on two continents at the turn of the century...
...Girl Named Paquita. After a bucolic boyhood in Indiana, Cincinnatus Hiner Miller (his real name) did indeed go west in a covered wagon. Hot with "Oregon fever," the Miller clan made the trek in 1852, but with most of Oregon to choose from, papa Miller, a hard luck farmer, staked out 320 arid acres. Restless and unhappy, Joaquin won his father's consent to go prospecting for "Californy gold." In later years, Joaquin claimed that he threw all but the biggest nuggets away, but his accounts show that he had a cash balance of $5.25 when he quit...
...Milk-Wagon Horses. Washington reporters themselves are far from blameless in their relations with the Administration. Some seem to feel that because their papers supported Ike, their hands are tied, that all stories must be favorable. Said one cynical newsman: "Reporters don't have to be told any more than milkwagon horses. They learned all the stops long ago, and they do it just by instinct.-Many a newsman also seems overawed by Ike's national popularity. "I don't think our readers are ready for critical reporting yet," says a top columnist...
...sings, a pair of willowy girls dance teasingly across the stage, only to be followed by a trio of hillbilly hags who bring the dreamer down to earth. In Gold Rush (from Paint Your Wagon), the girl dancers, cast as lighthearted trollops, swirl happily into a mining town and pair off with the men-only to be left in the lurch when the lode runs out. In Short Lecture and Demonstration on the Evolution...