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A REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's trip to Nancy, the ancient capital of the ancient duchy of Lorraine. Part of the reason for the trip was that the …
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PROFILE of Portland, Oregon.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about writer's 6-day journey to Dijon, France, on a ship called Janine, which is owned & operated by Floating Through Europe, Inc. of…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about going from Copenhagen to Paris by train. Writer booked a sleeping compartment on the Danish express to Paris that leaves Copenhagen…
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PROFILE of Hope, Arkansas (pop. 10,290), the seat of Hempstead County, in the southwestern part of the state.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a cross-country train trip from New York to Seattle last March. Amtrak has made a considerable effort to restore to its trains the …
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PROFILE of Pella, pop. 7,800, in Marion County in south-central Iowa, some 40 miles southeast of Des Moines. The town had its origin in the religious …
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PROFILE of Corydon (pop. 3, 107), seat of Harrison County, in Southern Indiana. It is situated in a pleasant valley some 20 miles west of Louisville. It is…
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Berton Roueché on an illness at a Florida elementary school with a psychosomatic cause.
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PROFILE of Hermann, Missouri (pop. 2,658), an old German town on the Missouri River, 80 miles west of St. Louis. It was founded in 1837 by a group of …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a trip on the Meramec River and on a white-water tributary called Courtois Creek, in Crawford County, Missouri, in the foothills of…
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PROFILE of garlic, quoting from many sources about the history of garlic use, its long-heralded therapeutic value, which has little basis in medical fact.
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PROFILE of Canyon County, Idaho from the point of view of the work of the office of the county agent. The chief agent is Merle R. Samson. A county agent is…
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PROFILE of the Appalachian town of Welch, West Virginia county seat of McDowell County, rich in coal & poor in people. McDowell is known in the industrial …
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PROFILE of Rev. Edward Thomas Hougen, of the Central Congregational Church, in Orange, Mass. (pop. 6,188). Spirit in Flesh, a rock from the Brotherhood of …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a towboat trip down the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers, from Kansas City to Baton Rouge. Tells about the freight haulage on …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about the Florissant fossil beds in Teller Co., Colo., 35 mi. west of Colorado Springs. The beds represent the richest repositories of …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about spending a day in the Big Thicket of East Texas, the remai ns of a three-million-acre bog-bayou wilderness. The guide Lance Rosier …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about harvesting wild rice. Visit to Lower Rice Lake in the White Earth Chippewa Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota at the …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a couple of days spent on the Cabeza Prieta trails, starting from the little copper-mining town of Ajo, in the Sonoran Desert of …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a boat trip the author made down a section of the Green River near Pinedale in the Wind River Mountains of western Wyoming, with …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a proposed national monument - Islandia National Monument, which would consist of a string of densely wooded coral islands, lying …
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REPORTER AT LARGE. Writer tells of spending a day on the Current River in the Ozarks of southeastern Missouri with Lee Beck & Leonard Hall. The Current …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a walk along the towpath of the derelict Chesapeak & Ohio Canal. At Seneca Lock author saw a duck-a tiny bufflehead, drifting along…
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PROFILE of the American elm tree, which will probably become extinct due to the Dutch elm disease. Among the tree's good qualities are that it is …
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ANNALS OF MEDICINE about alcohol, discussing the various symptoms of the hangover; fatigue, headache, thirst, vertigo, and nausea. Fatigue, like pain & …
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ANNALS OF MEDICINE about cortisone and ACTH. Case history of a periarteritis modosa sufferer, A N.Y. school teacher named Robert Laurence. Were it nor for …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Dorchester Pottery Works. The industry was founded by a New England Scotchman named George Henderson, in 1884. After…
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PROFILE of Louis Haft of the Haft Glass Company, Inc on 42 St. just west of 9th Ave. Firm was founded in a basement on Maiden Lane by a Polish immigrant …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the chemical plant of Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc., one of the largest of all producer of penicillin & streptomycin, & …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to two of Harry Pack' 32 chicken farms in Dagsbury, in Sussex County, Dela. Pack, the son of a Jewish immigrant, who …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the Silverbrook Art Glass Works, Silverbrook. L. I. The factory is owned and operated by three brothers, Frank, Henry, &…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Poona cheese, invented and made by Mrs. Kent Leavitt, of Fraleigh Farm, Dutchess County. Many consider it one of the most admirable…
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Profile of Everett Joshua Edwards, a 78-year-old retired shore whaler, of East Hampton, L.I. Mr. Edwards was born in Amagansett, which his ancestors helped…
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Sag Harbor & its famous church, designed by Minard Lafever. The church, which lost its steeple in the hurricane of '38, was …
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Profile of Frank Emerson Denison, chief grader and blender of tea of Henry P. Thomson, Inc., the largest tea-importing firm in New York City and one of the…
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Berton Roueché on a mysterious case of cyanosis—a type of poisoning so rare that, before 1948, only ten previous outbreaks of it had been recorded in medical literature.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to the DeWitt W. Nichols farm, one of the biggest and most generally esteemed producers of maple syrup in upstate New York.…
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Reporter at Large about gout. Although gout cannot be cure the severity of its periodic attacks can be lessened and their duration greatly shortened by …
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Reporter at Large about a visit to the Hudson Valley Wine Company winery, south of the village of Highland, in Ulster County. The company is owned and …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a new disease, rickettsialpox, o which over a hundred cases appeared in Regnecy Park, L.I. The first victim was 11-year-old Edmund…
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Reporter at Large about Paul Friesner's buckeye shop, the La Central Cigar Corporation, 305 W. 39th St. A buckeye is a shop in which cigars are made by…
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Berton Roueché on female night-club photographers in the nineteen-forties.
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REPORTER AT LARGE about Robert W. Green, of W. Trenton, N. J., the first man in this country to import Sardinian donkeys for the purpose of building up a …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a tour of the old Gas-house district now being cleared of the slums to make way for the huge housing project to be undertaken by …
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REPORTER AT LARGE about a visit to Little Portion, the monastery of the Order of the Poor Brethren of St. Francis. Little Portion is one of the smallest …
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Reporter at Large about gout. The first known treatment of gout consisted of burning glax near the affected joint, presumably to smoke out the trouble. …