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...left high school in his junior year back in 1946 to join the regular Army. He spent three dull years at Stateside Army posts, came back to Crooksville, went to work in the Misco mine, and acted as though he had settled down for life. Then, in February 1951, his younger brother Dick was killed in Korea. Ronald told his father-a mine boss who has not missed a day's work in 20 years-and his 13 brothers and sisters: "I'm going to get even for what they did to Dick...
Next week "those fellows"-the U.S. Senate-will take up the petition by the Territory of Hawaii for admission to the union as a full-fledged state. Hawaii has been petitioning for statehood for 98 years-and from the talk in the cloakrooms, Joe Farrington knows the odds are against him again this time. Far worse, the talk in the cloakrooms is the quid pro quo talk of politics, e.g., if Hawaii is Republican, then we should let in Democratic Alaska. Joe Farrington's lament is provoked by the fact that nobody is asking the only question that matters...
...these wondrous virtues, spread in newspapers and on billboards and blared from radios and from a 17-car railroad caravan of patent medicine men and entertainers (e.g., Chico Marx, Mickey Rooney, Carmen Miranda) have made Hadacol the world's biggest selling "tonic." In four years-and on an investment of only $2,500-LeBlanc's sales have jumped from $75,000 to an estimated $25 million this year...
...federal budget, instead of running $5.6 billion in the red, should be balanced. Admittedly, the U.S. should not commit itself to balancing the budget every year, the subcommittee said, for that would mean "drastic increases of tax rates or drastic reductions of Government expenditures during periods of deflation and unemployment, thereby aggravating the decline." But if the U.S. ran into the red in depression years, it had to show a surplus in prosperous years-and that meant...
...advance signs indicated that The Outlaw would be either the best or the worst picture of the year. Its making cost $2,500,000. Its two young stars, full-breasted Jane Russell and slim Jack Buetel, had been ballyhooed to magazine cover fame for two years-and yet the U.S. had never seen them on the screen. Howard Hughes, the eccentric designer-aviator-producer, personally directed the picture and surrounded it with such provoking secrecy that not even the actors in it were allowed to see the finished product. Last fortnight The Outlaw had its premiere. What Hughes apparently...