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...agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State College, which had sent Mr. Hug forth-co-operating with the U. S. Department of Agriculture-to discover what it is that makes farm boys put on their store clothes and migrate city-wards; what rural social organizations-a four-corners movie, soda-fountain, pool parlor, rollercoaster, stuffy boarding-house-might persuade them to slacken a population shift that is believed to threaten the country's economic future...
...Biddeford Pool...
Into the ocean at Biddeford Pool, Me., plunged plucky James Montgomery Flagg, famed artist, well-paid pen-and-ink perpetrator of languid women, stout men, old home scenes. Beating through storm-twirled waves, while lightning flashed above him like a white, demented eyeball, he swam to the side of Isaac Cook, drowning realtor, pulled him shoreward. Mr. Cook, safe on shore, offered no word of thanks. His breath made no mist upon a mirror. Saved from drowning, he had died of heart disease...
...near the edge. One slip and- plumps-you would be in, hein?" Mme. Cuvelier turned on him the point of a yellow tooth. "Holy pig!" she replied, "I could swim ten miles before your mother was weaned. Voila-your hand, take it away. . . ." She plunged into the pool. The crowd cheered. Later in the day the women started a distance race. Mme. Desprez won it, swam for more than an hour, showed no sign of fatigue. Asked for a speech, she told the wondering throng that she had been born in 1839, that her father had been a teacher...
...electric torch on a black and yellow Presence with jewel eyes that leaped out of the forest upon the goat's back. His rifle roared; he knew that his aim had been true, but when he sprang forward to look he found the goat lying dead in a pool of blood with the marks of incredible claws in his back. There was nothing else, no dead marauder. The captain turned upon his gunbearer a face in which horror whitely flickered. Could it be?...