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CAPTAIN AND MRS. C. N. BEECHAM WICHITA, KANS...
Life with Mother. In Wichita, Kans., Wayne Huttong was granted a divorce after testifying he worked nights, and never got any sleep during the day because his wife insisted on keeping 36 pet canaries and two dogs in the bedroom...
...much dough I had. If I had enough for a railroad ticket, I'd resent what he'd done and walk out. If I was broke, I'd wait until payday and then resent." Little resented his way from Cleveland to Chicago, Paris, Wichita and Oklahoma City. Along the way, he stored up inspiration for a song called Flat on My Prat in Pratt, Kansas. In 1939, Scripps-Howard transferred him to the Houston Press. Overnight Carl Victor Little became a fanatic Texan, because "there's no one more zealous than a convert...
...three years ago, a federal flood-control and power project created a winding lake, 30 miles long. By now, over what was once a land of cotton, the yachtsmen of two new Atlanta clubs can sail fleets of Thistles, Y-Flyers and Snipes every day of the year. At Wichita, in the dry state of Kansas, lives the National and Western Hemisphere champion in the Snipe (15½-ft.) Class, Aeronautical Engineer Ted Wells, who does his home sailing on tiny ( ⅔ sq.mi.) Santa Fe Lake...
Stormy Weather. In Wichita, when Robert Steven refused to push a stalled car from a flooded intersection for fear his own auto would stall, eight angry men piled out, ripped the hood ornament off Steven's auto and poured water on the back seat...