Hal Boyle Reflects on Americans and the Gamble Ethic
Hal Boyle surveys American culture contrasting work and leisure with European restraint. He argues Americans chase small risks to gain wealth and leisure, praising machines and mass consumer habits while noting a national creed of take a chance. The piece mocks long labor and celebrates improvised prosperity in a land of opportunity.
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Europe
Negro Legion Posts Chartered In State
Alabama Legion executive committee chartered Negro American Legion posts in Birmingham Courtland Decatur and Hamilton. Action on a Montgomery Negro post was postponed. State Commander James A Lane to name a committee for a 1948 convention city and was endorsed for national vice commander with his name to be placed before the Miami convention. The junior baseball program and aid to on the farm trainees were discussed.
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Montgomery
Birmingham
Courtland
Decatur
Hamilton
Alabama Legion
James A. Lane
Lane
Miami
Legion
Duel of editors and a Czech journalist in exile
A Czech journalist recounts selling bylines under multiple names to attack himself for readers, sparking duels and unrest in Bratislava. He notes purges by the Communists and explains his plan to meet New York editors to find work while debating whether to stay.
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L A
Czechoslovakia
Bratislava
Prague
Tama
Men of Vision
New York
Billy Rose
First Mineral Discovery Marks Arivena Groundbreaking Find
Thirty seven years before the Pilerians landed on Ploumoroth Rock Antonia Espeja a white man found stler ore in the Arivena territory marking the first mineral discovery in the region.
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Hal Boyle
Americas
America
Mars
Jack
Maria
Frans Woolecurta
Negro Legion
Dothan Chamber of Commerce
Purina
Chow
Dothan Milling Co
M. Ray
Mer
Purin Chow
Tesit
Ala
Home Termite Co
FFA
Sale
R. S. Suggs
Animal Husbandry
Auburn
Russell Cardwell
Montgomery, Ala
Dothan