Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medium height (5 ft. 10½ in.) and rangy, Henry is a 34-year-old copy of his father -bristling eyebrows and all. He also has some of his father's food fads (he eats 1,300 eggs a year), doesn't smoke or drink "Never got around to trying"). But he has no interest in politics (he dodges questions about his father because "father gets castrated so often in print") and reads only books or magazines pertaining to his work...
...Wallace was one of the first to market a commercial strain of hybrid seed, but he did not invent the process. Many present-day methods of hybrid corn production can be traced back to the work of Professor George H. Shull around 1906 at the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor...
...himself. He made little attempt to mingle with other literary lights, declined to be photographed. (As a special concession, last month he allowed himself to be photographed for TIME, but only in hands-to-face masquerade-see cut.) But the gossip columnists of that year had been idly poking around in search of something to say about the wedding bells of Mr. Yorke...
Divide & Conquer. In Manhattan, two ex-convicts who had joined forces to rob pretty Eleanor Joly were nabbed by police when they came around again to make separate social calls...
...Nationalist military news agency said three armies (possibly 60,000 men) were heading north from Canton to strengthen the defense belt around the provisional capital...