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...best piece of technical execution he entrusts to no jury, awards on his own hook to a print of his own choosing for reasons of his own. He gave it last week to Thomas W. Nason of Reading, Mass. for a finicky line engraving of two hayricks, a barn, a dying oak tree...
...Village Barn (52 W. 8th) which caters to a college crowd. A rustic barn, the walls of which are covered with college pennants and hay, but the floor of which is smooth for dancing. You'll meet all your friends...
Midway. Nobody ever got trampled inspecting a colt in the Horse Barn. But last week many a toe got stepped on while its owner ogled a filly named Jade Rhodora in that brawling half-moon of tents pitched east of the race track. Strip-Dancer Rhodora, who overnight became Des Moines' Sally Rand, took it all in the right spirit, announcing: "I wouldn't do a strip dance in a night club. ... I wouldn't do it at a stag affair either. This is different. The people are really good folks. They don't get to see much of this...
Also along with the products of the barn, field and home, the Fair judged Iowa's humanity. Counties sent their candidates for healthiest boy and girl, and parents from all over the State vied with each other for the healthiest baby. When the infants had been run through the medical mill like cars in straight-line production, a solemn-eyed tot named Jimmy Miller Huntley of Ames emerged as the grand champion sweepstakes winner with a health score...
...unyielding desire for savage revenge. Although Oliver La Farge's stories of them, when analyzed, prove to be written around oldfashioned, commonplace plots of undying love or hate, they have the distinction of making Indian rites and traditions seem as human and amiable as college proms or midwestern barn dances...