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...encourages a low birth rate among pigs. This supposition is only part of the truth. Now 51, Henry .Wallace was born and grew up on an Iowa farm. His grandfather and father before him were well-off, distinguished editors and gentlemen who in Iowa society had positions somewhat akin to the aristocratic Roosevelts in the Hudson Valley...
Donald S. Vorhees, of Leavenworth, Kans., A. B. University of Kansas '38, Lewis Larned Coburn scholarship; Jackson G. Akin Jr., of Bowling Green, Ky., A. B. Washington and Lee '40, Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship; George Manner, of Ithaca, N. Y. A. B. Coirnell '36, Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship Victor F. Weiss, of Sheboygan, Wis., Ph. B. University of Wisconsin '40, Sidney Thompson Fairchild scholarship; Jack R. Pearce, of Terre Haute, Ind., A. B. Depauw '40, George Fisher scholarship; David J. Stolzer, of Rochester, N. Y., A. B. University of Rochester '40, Felix Frankfurter scholarship...
...machine, ions, akin to the particles shot forth by radium and other radioactive elements, are revolved around in a vacuum tank between the poles of a huge magnet at the speed of millions of miles an hour...
...Akin to Hollywood's picture business is the business of retailing. Glossy, high-priced executives move from store to store, accompanied by troops of favorite underlings. Terms like "genius," "snake," "megalomaniac," are indiscriminately applied. Last week, in the gossipy lianas of the trade, the No. 2 U. S. retailer of general merchandise was getting more than his share of epithets. His name: Sewell Lee Avery, chairman of Montgomery Ward...
Victor. Nobody believed that the popularity or political acumen of Sam Houston Jones, 42, accounted for the victory. Five months ago Sam Jones was known only as a moderately prosperous Lake Charles attorney. He comes from that stretch of Southwest Louisiana that is more akin to Texas than to the Old South, where the French-speaking Acadian country of the bayous, live-oaks, sugar & rice plantations, shades off into oil and cattle country...