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PIGS: FROM CAVE TO CORN BELT (305 pp.)-Charles Wayland Towns & Edward Norris Wentworth-University of Oklahoma...
...story got around and the label stuck. In their passionately partisan study of Pigs: From Cave to Corn Belt, Authors Charles Wayland Towne (retired publicity director for Anaconda Copper) and Edward Norris Wentworth (director of Armour's Livestock Bureau) make it clear that a pork packer as Uncle Sam's prototype is not too outlandish an idea. "More than any other commodity," say the authors, "pork implemented American retaliation against [British] tyranny in colonial days, and incidentally initiated the great international commerce that has characterized . . . modern [U.S.] culture." By 1850, "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) had become the greatest pork-packing...
...Andover, 17 to 13, for their fourth win in five meets. Captain Johnny Lee, at 128, gave the Yardlings the lead with a pin early in the third period, and the winners added to their lead with decisions by Bud Adams (136), Icko Iben (145), Russ Harris (155), and Wayland Bowser...
...stumped for new housing, for repeal of the Taft-Hartley law, for more social security, for the Marshall Plan, for civil rights. When Republican Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks refused to debate the issues with him, in the fashion of the old Lincoln-Douglas debates,* he set up an empty chair and debated with that. The voters liked what they saw: a big, 6 ft. 2½ in., 235-pounder with simplicity and integrity sticking out all over him, a scholar who looked equally at home in the coal fields of Little Egypt and the tenements of South Chicago. "That...
...short scene from Ferene Molnar's drama about a carousel operator, "Lilliem," Hawkins again had the titel role. Stanley A. Zemon '52 took the part of his accomplice. Wayland W. Boswer '53, William J. Burns '53, and England also had parts...