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...stockade. Men with guns were careful to see that only a limited number of Indians were admitted to trade at one time. Then the guns disappeared, and the stockades, but still you had a more or less isolated post, with a few houses growing up around it. Then the settlement grew into a town, and a modern store developed-often on the very site of the old fortified post. Today, we don't try to limit the number of customers. Times have changed...
With a producer and a narrator he probed into the South Side slums, visited reform schools, penitentiaries, settlement houses; he brought back tape-recorded interviews with underworld characters, memoirs of seasoned convicts, advice from judges and social workers. The most effective talk came from the Dead Enders themselves...
Soon hundreds of Texas children were rifling desks at home for old letters, rummaging through attics and barns. They got oldtimers to tell them stories of the old days. One San Antonio high school helped preserve an old Mexican settlement, La Villita, around which San Antonio grew. A Junior Historian in Wichita Falls, Tex. made the fattest find of all: a pioneer settler's 82-volume diary...
...Columbia Broadcasting System; and Barbara Gushing Mortimer, 30, svelte brunette daughter of the late great brain surgeon, Dr. Harvey Gushing; both for the second time; in Manhasset, N.Y. Five days before, he had been divorced in Reno by Dorothy Hart Paley, 38, who reportedly got a $1,500,000 settlement, after 15 years of marriage, two children (adopted...
...guided by another revelation, Mother Ann and eight disciples came to America. Their first settlement was a swampy tract of land near Albany, N.Y., which the little band of English artisans laboriously cleared and drained. There they waited for the followers whom Mother Ann prophesied would join them in the New World. In 1780, the followers began to show up. From then on, the Shakers slowly spread, settling together in communities called "families" from Maine to southwest Kentucky. Between 1840 and 1860, they attained their peak membership. Their peculiar religious practices caused the world's people to persecute them...