Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...width behind the South's biggest farm publications, the Southern Agriculturist (circ. 1,103,034) and the Progressive Farmer (circ. 1,080,575),-but fields ap&rt in journalistic approach. Instead of teMing his readers how to farm, Williams gives them advice on economic matters and something to think about while farming. He crusades against such things as "the fertilizer combine and trusts" and the poll tax, runs pieces on housing, credit and taxes...
Williams has built up the Farmer chiefly by weeding out the gone-to-seed circulation lists, and harvesting new readers with contests and prizes ranging from Bibles to tractors. Says he: "I don't think very many people down here buy magazines because they want the magazine. They get a monkey wrench or something and the magazine is thrown in ... I don't know what they do with the Farmer-stick it down the toilet, maybe . . . but they continue...
...Hutchins, the greatest need of the present was a broad, unified education that would train men to think importantly alone, but also to talk wisely together. For 20 years, that has been his mission at Chicago...
Last spring Robert Hutchins married his former secretary, petite, pretty, 31-year-old Vesta Orlick (he was divorced from his first wife in 1948). His new marriage seems to agree with him (he quipped: "I think I'll try it every year"). He now likes cooking (including baked cucumbers & cheese), and, after years of pretended disdain for outdoor exercise ("I believe in it for others"), fishing...
...Fantastic Cost. What would War III be like? Bush finds no ready answer. It would not be as easy as some optimists like to think, nor as dire as others predict. "For a long time to come," at least, there would not be fleets of fast and high-flying intercontinental bombers. The atom bomb would be dropped, but it is not the abso lute weapon it has been said to be. It is not even as devastating as popularly supposed, says Bush. The costs of manufacturing and of delivering it would be so vast that they might well exhaust...