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...early 20s, Henry Agard Wallace was an Iowa Republican, a member of his grandfather's Calvinistic church, and mostly occupied in experimenting with hybrid corn...
...Live & Die. Then there are the soldiers. They are boys, most of them, in their teens and early 20s, many of them lately trained only in the softening and vitiating duty of the occupation in Japan. They were scared at first. In some places, they abandoned positions that seasoned troops might have held. But in a land and among a people that most of them dislike, in a war that all too few of them understand and none of them want, they became strong men and good soldiers-fast. Quite literally overnight they learned all there is to know about...
Burma is full of elephants that never forget. Back in the '20s and '30s, when J. H. ("Elephant Bill") Williams was working as elephant manager for the Bombay Burma Trading Corp., he traveled from camp to camp, inspecting the jumbos whose job was pushing & pulling four-ton teak logs down from the hills...
Died. George Card ("Buddy") De Sylva, 54, ubiquitous songwriter of the 20s, Hollywood and Broadway producer; of a heart ailment; in Hollywood. As a Tin Pan Alley lyricist, he wrote such hits as Sonny Boy, Memory Lane, Somebody Loves Me. In the '30s, turned moviemaker, he produced five Shirley Temple heart-throbbers. In 1939-40 he tried Broadway, produced three smash musicals (DuBarry Was a Lady, Louisiana Purchase, Panama Hattie] within a year...
...years, the U.S. has had a high old time sneering at George Babbitt-the bumptious bandersnatch businessman cartooned into being by Sinclair Lewis. He was the all-American philistine of the '20s. The '30s and '40s tried to kill him with scorn. But he was a tough old party, and now, it appears, he has a son & heir following firmly in his daddy's footsteps. In the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Poet-Historian Peter Viereck introduces "Gaylord" Babbitt,* old George...