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Last week the top U.S. soil expert, Soil Conservation Director Hugh Hammond Bennett, saluted Faulkner. Bennett pointed out that some pioneering farmers (notably United Fruit Co. and some Cuban sugar-cane growers) have long used a system of cultivation like Faulkner's, called "stubble mulch." The moldboard plow, agreed Bennett, is doomed, except for some special crops and uses...
Born. To Swingster Benny Goodman, 33, and Alice Hammond Duckworth Goodman, 37: their first child, Rachel; in Los Angeles. Weight...
...umpires for the All-Star team which is expected to compete with some of the other service schools shows that the following men have received two votes apiece: Guince, Harkins, Maiman, Massopust, Raiter, and Seaberg. Those who have received one vote are: Chidester, Donohue, Grant, Haight, Hallan, Hammond, Lenox, McDermott, Moore, Morrison, Nee, Replogle, Reilly, Schur, Smith, G. S., Turtie, Weidman, and Ziegler...
Contrary to legend, some Manhattan drama critics received it with considerable cordiality. The late Alexander Woollcott found merit in it. The late, great Percy Hammond intoned: "Later in the day I shall probably meet an acquaintance and he will ask me, as is the practice of a reviewer's acquaintances, what, if anything, I think of Abie's Irish Rose. Whereupon I shall oppress him with a sullen silence and pass upon my gloomy ways...
...Hammond Douglass, a veteran of action in North Africa with the American Field Service, will present a lecture, accompanied by movies and slides, describing life in the service, tomorrow night at 7 o'clock at the Hasty Pudding Club...