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...More Than You Promise." When they set up their village smithy and wagon-building shop in South Bend 101 years ago, brothers Clement and Henry Studebaker had just $68 to their name. But soon they and three other brothers were cashing in on the nation's great push westward making covered wagons for the pioneers and carts and carriages for the local trade. "Always give the customer more than you promise," was their motto, "but not too much, or you'll go broke." One of the company's first formal contracts was brief and to the point...
...next eight days, in scanty clothing and with almost no food, Yeo-Thomas wandered westward across the Saxon plain. Broken by torture, starvation and a chronic case of dysentery, his body somehow kept going, even when his mind was delirious. At last, just as he was about to make contact with the advancing U.S. forces, a German patrol picked him up. Weak as he was, Yeo-Thomas promptly organized another mass escape. One day later he staggered with his companions into an American outpost. "Don't shoot!" he shouted. "Escaping prisoners of war!" Said an American soldier: "Well...
...Americans could count and enjoyed counting. They lived under a sense of boundlessness. And every year a greater throng of new faces poured into their harbors, paused, and streamed westward. And each one was one. To this day, in American thinking, a crowd ... is not a homogenous mass...
...next seven weeks, he learned that his toughest problem was not food or drink but morale. The first few weeks were not so bad: the wind kept up, pushing him westward day by day, and life on the raft had not yet become grey, leaden monotony. But then the wind died away. For the next 27 days he just drifted, only now & then catching a faint breeze. Cheerful by nature, he often sank into deep troughs of depression as he looked out at the ever-empty horizon. Fortunately, there were daily chores to be done: fishing, keeping the log, plotting...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Westward the Women, with Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel...