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...their first bath, and, as a special treat, sardines, black bread, sausage and the inevitable vodka. "The first toast," said Cobin, "was for friendship. The second was for victory. I've forgotten what the third one was for, because I was halfway through drinking it when I woke up the next morning back in my original improvised cell." Last week they were released after signing statements that they were not spies and had not been mistreated. Their Russian "opposite numbers" had been released July...
...Last Week. Farmer Anderson woke just before 5 a.m. As he looked out over his unreaped acres he could see the wheat heads nodding to the cool morning. He called his wife, Zula, to get up and get breakfast going. He slipped out of his cotton nightshirt and into shorts, faded blue work shirt, grease-stained overalls and high, heavy shoes. On the back porch he sloshed water on his face, groped for the roller towel. In the next 15 minutes he had milked the cow and got Jack up. Then he went to the small bunkhouse and woke...
...gave everything she did the quality of prayer. Legends about her grew up in her lifetime: that she was saved from drowning as a child by an unknown hand; that a locked church door opened to her touch. It is said that a sister who shared her room once woke to find it flooded with a strange light. But the most revealing evidences of her inner life were the intimate notes she kept in her private journal...
...Well, I hardly saw Roger at all after that. He'd come" in at 4 in the morning, drink a glass of milk, get out of bed at ten and not come home again until 4. He got thinner and thinner. One night he woke me up and started to tell me that he'd picked up a tip in a bar that he thought would break that whole thing. But I guess I fell asleep and didn't hear...
Whatever the truth of the story, Floridians woke up to the fact that the cream of their state's 140 weeklies had been quietly bought up by one man. The owner of the lengthening chain, whose southern links now include 14 weeklies, seven dailies and four radio stations, is a little-known U.S. press lord named John Holliday Perry. His Western Newspaper Union is now the world's biggest newspaper syndicate. He is also the man most responsible for the creeping, canned mediocrity that is overtaking a good many of the nation's rural papers...