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...music for the U. S. faithful*, was well packed one night last week. It had been sold out for four days-good news in a season that had not begun too well for concert managers. Cause of the turnout was a brown, dignified, warm-smiling woman, in a billowy, pumpkin-colored gown which failed to add much to her melony 4 ft. 10 in. Negro Soprano Dorothy Maynor, just past her 30th birthday, had begun her second concert season...
Editors asked for more. Dave invented Rochester's Mayor Walter Tripp (in real life proprietor of the Jiffy Lunch), had him announce a Reduced Production County Fair, dedicated to New Deal crop control. Prizes were offered for the scrawniest pig, puniest pumpkin, cow yielding the least milk, the most sterile quart of soil. A special prize awaited the farmer entering fewest exhibits. Appreciative, Associated Press sent the tale over its wires. From all over the U. S. letters poured...
More than 7,000,000 U. S. citizens took out hunting licenses this year. Last week, with the first frost on the pumpkin, farmers took down their cherished fowling-pieces, bankers assembled their shiny shotguns and the army of U. S. hunters took to the woods, the marshes and the prairies for their fall shooting. From Cape Cod to the Sierras, most of them were after rabbits. Many had their minds on quail, pheasant, grouse, squirrel, deer. But the most excited U. S. gunners last week were the 1,000,000 duck shooters looking forward to their rendezvous with canvasbacks...
...suggest that TIME's book reviewer, as well as Novelist Burt, acquaint himself with Montana geography. Pumpkin Creek, the correct name for which is Pumpkin Vine Creek, does not join Powder River! This creek flows into the Tongue River approximately ten miles south of the confluence of the Tongue and Yellowstone Rivers...
...Reader Woolfolk acquaint himself with Wyoming geography: a Pumpkin Creek joins Powder River in Wyoming, at 44°1'51" N. Lat., 106°9'29" N. W. Long...