Word: wagoner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found work in a factory, painted when he could. Last year Sather had a show in Winnipeg which netted $800. With that, he bundled his family into a 1938 Ford station wagon and rattled off to Mexico. They lived in a shack in the jungle near Acapulco, and Sather came down with malaria. "But I have an attack only once a month," he says. "I'm so healthy, I'm a dynamo. I need only four hours' sleep a night." On their way back to Canada, the Sathers visited U.S. museums by day, camped in the fields...
Ambassador Villa Michel chivalrously gave his own bedroom to Arbenz, who fell off the wagon and went on a thundering three-day bender, after which a doctor straightened him out with glucose injections. Former Foreign Minister Guillermo Toriello visited the ex-President from time to time, but most of the other inmates never saw him. Jose Manuel Fortuny, No. I Communist and longtime Arbenz adviser, had an urgent personal problem: his wife was at the point of giving birth. The former Health Minister, also in asylum, delivered the baby, a boy, whom Fortuny gratefully saddled with the name Cuauht...
...went out. With an engineering brother in the family and some previous surveying experience of his own, Paul found it easy to land on the payroll of the Reclamation Service and work on the new dam. Desperate Scenery tells the rough-and-rugged story of how a 60-mile wagon road was built over mountain country, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of supplies, plus men and horses, were transported to the dam site before snow blocked the routes, and of how, with temperatures ranging to 55° below zero, a crew of 300 put together the new Jackson Lake...
Magic & Ballads. The program got under way at 10 a.m. at a wooden speaking platform under an enormous frame shelter. There was room for 300 fan-waving listeners under the shed, and a public-address system rigged to a station wagon kept the rest of the ridge informed. A magician performed for the small fry, and Pleaz Mobley, the Eighth District's Republican candidate for Congress, sang the old English ballads that the hillfolk love...
...convince the unbelieving." The Slider. Dichter's stock of old sheet music (copies available at $1 and up) follows the U.S. right through the Civil War to the eve of World War I, pausing frequently along Broadway and Tin Pan Alley. Among his titles: The Old Union Wagon; Give Us Back Our Old Commander; Mother, Is the Battle Over?; Come Down Nellie to the Old Red Barn; Don't Give Me Diamonds, All I Want is You; Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself, but Leave His Wife Alone. Collector Dichter's latest publication promises to be his biggest...