The Press: By Hap Arnold

The small (circ. 2,200) Sonoma (Calif.) Index-Tribune had a new, big-name columnist last week, and had him all to itself. His name: General of the Army Henry H. Arnold, lately boss of the A.A.F. During the war Hap Arnold bought a ranch in Jack London's famed Valley of the Moon, and told his next-door neighbors, co-Publishers Walter and Celeste Murphy, that he'd like to write for their weekly some time. They believed it a fortnight ago when they saw his first contribution, a bucolic homily titled Back to the Farm. Excerpts:

"It was some 43 years ago that I left a farm...

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