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foreword for October
ALWAYS with the coming of ■ spring we have had the reck' less hope that it would last forever. Winter seems a rumor of horror, a medieval thing, gone and good riddance, and the thought that spring and the easy summer will pass and winter come again fills us with dread.
Yet nature takes care of its own, even its human emotions. By the time summer has curved into fall and October arrives — the brash, bright, incisive month — winter al' ready begins to seem a welcome condition, much to be desired. Summer was worn out, anyway, a wilted old thing in tired ruffles that wouldn't give up through September. But now comes the crisp and taffeta weather with a patina of frost and smoke and the busy sound of blackbirds . . . and the ripe apple somehow more satisfying than the bloom that had us daft and lyrical in spring . , . and the brief red afternoons the shape and length of football games and drives into the country. It is a time of gathering-in, of homecoming, and the door closing to shut out the sudden night and shut in the warmth and good cheer and the feeling of safety. We draw up the chair before the first wood fire and pull the biggest book from the shelf, comfortable and barricaded, involved in a sort of gay conspiracy against the cold and feeling a certain excitement at being brought once more to face the rigors of stern nature, confident as we are that once again, against bleak despair and death for which winter serves as the eternal symbol, we will come through.
October 1948
Vol. 4 • No. 10
CONTENTS
ARTICLES
MARDI GRAS OF THE WHEAT
BELT James R. McQueen/ 3
HEAD 'EM OFF AT THE
GULCH Norion Hughes Jonathan 5
GYPSIES ARE HIS BUSINESS Jules France 9
OUR WEATHER WAR Harry Van Demark 13
HEREFORD HEAVEN Derek Carter U
MAGICIAN IN MANHATTAN Pat Dennihan 21
BROADSLIDING TIME George Siailer 23
WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE James L. Harte 27
THERE'S DANGER OVER FORTY Don F. Howeff 29
FUNERAL OF A FRIEND Frank G. Harris 41
TALK ISN'T CHEAP! Roger Swift 43
THE CASE OF THE GHOSTLY
AVENGER Ted Peferson 45
GEORGE WASHINGTON SLEPT
WHERE? Emmett T. Mansfield 49
DEPARTMENTS
HEAVY DATES IN KANSAS CITY 2
MAN OF THE MONTH 37
SWING IN WORLD AFFAIRS 53
SWING SESSION 55
CHICAGO LETTER 57
CHICAGO PORTS OF CALL 59
NEW YORK LETTER 61
NEW YORK PORTS OF CALL 62
NEW YORK THEATRE 64
KANSAS CITY PORTS OF CALL 66
Editor Mori Greiner
Art Editor Don Fitzgerald
Publisher Donald Dwight Davis
Contributing Editor: Jetta Carleton. Assistant Editor: Patrick Dennihan. Associate Editors: Rosemary Haward, Evelyn Nolt, Verna Dean Ferril, June Thompson. Chicago Editor: Norton Hughei Jonathan. New York Editor: Lucie Brion. Humot Editor: Tom Collins. Music Editor: Bob Kennedy. Circulation Manager: John T. Schilling. Photography: Hahn-Millard, Studna-Millard, Ray Farnan.
Art'. Don Fitzgerald, Hugh Broadley, Rachael Weber, Frank Hensley, Rannie Miller, David Hunt, F. E. Warren, Mignon Beyer, John Whalen. Front Cover: Harold Hahn. Back Cover: Courtesy Union Pacific.