Word: farmers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bouncing out of the wings and turning on his Missouri accent, he had gotten off a rousing, "give-'em-hell" speech, designed for the farmer-labor combination that had elected him last November. The audience at the Allegheny County Fair was tailor-made-farmers from the countryside, steelworkers from Pittsburgh's mills. "Farmers and industrial workers . . . depend on each other," he told them...
...Alkire, like many a leather-faced farmer and ginghamed housewife who thought "they could do better," looked with a jaundiced eye at the shorthanded post-impressionist manners of the art-school artists. Sniffed she: "Art is done for beauty. Not that grotesque stuff. A picture is supposed to speak its own piece, the same as a billboard. If you have to stop and ask questions . . . it's no good...
...most of it has been spent teaching. In time, as founder of the Allahabad Agricultural Institute, Sam Higginbottom became famous. Maharajas called him in for advice; the Viceroy invited him to tea; both high- and low-caste Indians became his students. Last week, in a rambling autobiography-Sam Higginbottom, Farmer (Scribner; $3)-the 74-year-old missionary tells his story...
Corn in the Crib. Hard-working Farmer Barbour's only worry was a glut that might force prices down. In Vincennes, they had quit picking peaches because they could not find a market. Other farmers across the U.S. had also become apprehensive of plenty. In California, pears and early Gravenstein apples went to waste. In Iowa, many a farmer's cribs were still crammed with last year's record crop of corn. This year's crop was nearly...
Died. Starr Nelson, 84, oldest flying farmer in the U.S. (he got his pilot's license in 1941), who had logged over 1,000 hours in the air; of a heart attack; in Estes Park, Colo, (where he was to receive a fourth successive annual award at the National Flying Farmers convention...