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...calling and a broadened outlook at the world about him. Yesterday's F.F.A. leaders have helped bring U.S. agriculture to the most bountiful state ever known to any civilization, and in so serving their nation they have served themselves. Examples: 1938's Star Farmer, Hunter Roy Greenlaw, found himself at 16, when his father died, running his family farm near Fredericksburg, Va.; he has built up his property from 385 acres and a few dairy cattle to nearly 800 acres and a herd of 200 Herefords. James Henry Thompson of Salem, Ore., Star Farmer in 1942, originally paid...
...epee, 5 to 4. Kip Marsetta won his three sabre bouts and the total score stood at 13 to 13 before the last bout. Captain Warren Stone, who had already won two bouts, put on a magnificent performance to beat Clark's top fencer, Bob Greenlaw, and to give the Crimson the meet, 14 to 13. Stone has not lost a bout all season, and the freshmen are also undefeated...
...high times in the hostels in Kunming, to souvenir-buying where price was no object, to the calculatingly reckless battles with the Jap and the thundering return to the home fields when the battle was over. There would be an end to the fat checks from Major Greenlaw, the paymaster, and an end to the squadron parties where Major Greenlaw's glamorous White Russian wife presided...
Hunter Roy Greenlaw farms 385 acres of George Washington's boyhood home on the banks of the Rappahannock River near Falmouth, Va. When Hunter took over the farm after his father's death nearly five years ago, it didn't amount to much. A gangling stalk of a lad, Hunter stayed in high school and managed the farm on the principles he learned there...
...seed corn under-contract for a wholesale firm, bought a $1,075 tractor on the installment plan to help his two mules and five horses. By the time he was graduated from high school last year, with a four-year average of 92½%, Hunter Roy and the prospering Greenlaw farm were models for miles around. Last week the Future Farmers of America, of which Hunter is one of 173,000 members, convened in Kansas City, Mo. under the auspices of the Kansas City Star to confer their coveted honor of Star Farmer, which carries a $500 prize. "I sure...