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...Henry Wallace's hornyhanded men was sandy-haired, chunky Claude Raymond Wickard, who grows wheat, corn, alfalfa, Aberdeen Angus cattle, Hampshire hogs on his farm in Carroll County, Ind. Mr. Wickard started in a minor administrative job, moved up until last year he became Under Secretary of Agriculture. Although he seldom got public credit, his was the mind behind many of the New Deal's agricultural programs. If any man did, he understood the mystic mathematics of agriculture. Few weeks ago he impressed his associates by forecasting the 1940 corn yield, hitting remarkably close to the later official...
...English at Harvard; Anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski at Yale. Last fortnight famed Finnish Architect Alvar Aalto, who was to direct Finland's reconstruction, changed his mind, decided to stay in the U. S. and teach at M. I. T. Latest scholarly arrivals in the U. S are University of Aberdeen's Lancelot Hog ben (Mathematics for the Million, Science for the Citizen) and his equally eminent wife, Dr. Enid Charles, Britain's No. 1 population expert. A semi-refugee, Lancelot Hogben was caught on a lecture tour in Norway by the German invasion, escaped through Russia...
...railroad, alphabetically speaking, is Aberdeen & Rockfish. It is 45 miles long, owns three locomotives and connects the North Carolina towns of Fayetteville and Aberdeen. Known far & wide is A. & R. for a rather dubious distinction. Every time ICC cooks up a legal action against all U. S. railroads A. & R., with an et al. after its name, represents the entire list. But A. & R. has another distinction, which was gaining importance last week: it is the principal rail route to Fort Bragg, the U. S. Army's 125,000-acre artillery post. Since defense preparations began the little line...
...rainy morning last week newsmen and photographers picked their way across Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground to a wooden stand overlooking a large, wet field. Soldiers stood on guard. In the middle of the field, some 2,500 feet away, stood a gibbety-looking pole, with a baglike object suspended from it. From the pendent object oozed a steamy vapor...
Died. Florence (Florrie) Forde (Australian-born, Cockney by adoption), 65, famed London music-hall singer who introduced Tipperary; of a brain hemorrhage; in Aberdeen, Scotland, after a charity performance at which she sang her most famous song: Good byeee, good byeee, wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eyeee...