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...little time for sightseeing or the movies. Many made a beeline for the American Royal Livestock Show, which ran concurrently with the F.F.A. convention. Others stuck to the convention agenda, listened to speeches by Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson and British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, and frolicked at a big barn-warming party, where they shucked corn and sweatily swung their partners in old-fashioned square dances...
Thirteen Words. "In the days when I played, the opposition were bastards and barn-burners," Crisler says. That kind of approach, he considers, is now as outdated as the iron men. His pep talks are delivered in midweek. He boils down the basic difference between offense and defense to 13 words: "On offense, it's poise, finesse, determination. On defense, it's fury, fight, utter abandon." He gives his "offense unit" one kind of indoctrination, his "defense unit" the other. Crisler even has a "point-after-touchdown" unit-including a specialist place-kicker and seven of the biggest...
When Cecil B. DeMille went to California in 1913 and rented half a barn in which to film The Squaw Man, there was a village there called Hollywood. But none of the innocents who lived in the village dreamed, in their wildest nightmares, how radically Mr. DeMille and his followers would alter the community...
...baby, Globe Aircraft Corp. grew fast. In three war years it built $18.5 million worth of trainer planes for the Army. Its first plant was a converted barn near Fort Worth. At war's end, Globe felt strong enough to venture into the peacetime market with a small civilian plane, the Swift. It floated a $1.5 million stock issue, at $10 a share, to help finance it. Nine months ago, when the small-plane market hit stormy weather. Globe crashed...
...stranger, who feels that the war is over now and that people should be sociable again, irritatingly insists on wearing enigmatic checkered pants. At last his hideous secret comes out: he was not only a Union soldier, but a schoolmaster to boot. Ultimately, of course, he unmasks the barn-burners, pacifies MacBean, and gets the girl...