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To auction off a prizewinning black Angus steer, Michigan's State Fair counted on doddery, dirt-farming Governor Luren Dudley Dickinson.

From Time Magazine Archive

A dirt-farming back-country legislator named Roy Dunn took over as the state's Republican boss.

From Time Magazine Archive

Born to a Texas dirt-farming family, he emigrated to Greenwich Village in the early '60s, and over the next eleven years saw some 125 productions of his plays put on in caf� theaters and off-off-Broadway.

From Time Magazine Archive