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Phil Johnson, who had a Scandinavian indestructibility which no amount of toil seemed to affect, stopped off for a day's work at Boeing's Wichita plant on the way home. That night, without warning, he collapsed with a cerebral hemorrhage. By next evening Phil Johnson was dead...
...Goshen, N.Y. As usual, a sign hung in front of the county jail reading: "Welcome Horsemen." The race brought out what the black-dirt farmers of Orange County called a "middlin' crop of three-year-olds." The favorite was Yankee Maid, owned by Arch L. Derby of Wichita, Kans., first horse from west of the Mississippi ever to win the event. She won as expected. Her fastest time over the mile course...
...Quakers alone now have 13 work camps in the U.S., three in Mexico, one in Puerto Rico. Colleges from Pennsylvania's Swarthmore to Kansas' Wichita give credits for theses based on camp projects, hashed out in camp seminars staffed with college teachers. The eight-week sessions cost the student $100 (but scholarships are available). Their Quaker sponsors expect to find plenty of work in postwar Europe for work-camp alumni...
...ried 15 men in the last 18 years. Explained Mrs. Stankowich (the name of No. 15): "I am very much alive, and I don't think there is any explanation of what a woman will do when she is very much alive." Feeling Seedy. In Wichita, Mrs. Mil dred Braley learned what happened to her bowl of nasturtium seeds when her test-pilot husband rose heavily from the table, commented: "I can't say I think much of your new brand of breakfast cereal." Bushed. In Los Angeles, Edward Jones tossed $400 into...
...Assembly unanimously endorsed him for Congress, no candidate has ever been so completely muzzled. Until his discharge from the Army (expected this week), he is forbidden to politick. So Democrats have sheltered him from photographers, have booked no speaking dates, opened no headquarters. They even hustled him off to Wichita to keep him out of sight...