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...little old voter fooled everybody. The experts thought they had him analyzed, charted, taped and ready for delivery. One pollster loftily dismissed him two months ago and would not even take another look. But the independent voter apparently wasn't telling anybody anything. This week he went to the polls and cast his secret ballot. In Illinois, a victorious Democratic candidate for the Senate, Paul Douglas, declared: "This is ... a people's victory." He was right. The little old independent voter was the hero of Election Day. There was only one thing to his discredit and that...
Corn for Dixie. Man is master not only of the soil, but of the plants that grow in it, molding them plastically to suit human purposes. Until recently, the U.S. Southeast had never been good corn country. A few years ago the U.S. Department of Agriculture began breeding special hybrid corns to suit Southern conditions. In North Carolina, whose corn yields ran around 22 bushels an acre, the new "Dixie" hybrids, lavishly fertilized and planted thicker than ordinary corn, made 125 bushels...
...year ago the Orange and Black lost to the Crimson, 2 to 1, as the Crimson scored both of its goals on penalty kicks, both of which were vigorously disputed...
...Saxon's dominion over him seem worthwhile. The wife, Susan Hayward, registers tender anxiety throughout without much success, and Audrey Totter, as Saxon's girl friend has to cope with the sort of "I-love-him-the-brute" part which was thoroughly explored by Clara Bow a long time ago...
...That Harkins backs to a few years ago when we had to Gruber victory from a Pearson defeat," replied his disciple, Palin slightly...