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Turnabout. White Wednesday was a good day for Ezra Taft Benson, who has had many bad days in the past seven years (and will doubtless have plenty of them in the year ahead). Home from the hospital, he pored happily over the news from Iowa. Out in Chicago at its yearly convention, the staunchly Republican, 1,400,000-member American Farm Bureau Federation unanimously adopted a pro-Benson wheat plan that calls for lowering the support price from the present $1.77 a bushel under acreage controls to about $1.30 with no controls-a "lowering" that could well bring...
THOMAS STANKIEWICS Chicago...
...sooner was ex-Chicago Bootlegger Roger ("The Terrible") Touhy paroled from the Illinois state pen last month (TIME, Nov. 23-30) than a book titled The Stolen Years, Touhy's rip-roaring life story, was published by Cleveland's Pennington Press. The hot volume, co-authored by Chicago Newsman Ray Brennan, is chiefly devoted to protesting Touhy's innocence of the wacky 1933 kidnaping of Swindler John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, a crime for which Touhy served 25 years of a 99-year stretch. The complaint against the book: it alleges that Factor committed wholesale perjury...
Every year-end since 1954, Chicago's First National Bank has invited top businessmen to peer into the coming year. Among predictions for 1960 last week...
While virtually all of these matches were made on a balance sheet, a few ended with mutual love and respect. Mary Leiter of Chicago married Lord Curzon and went with him to India, where she served selflessly as Vicereine. At her early death, he was heartbroken. She was beautiful, but her parents were colorful. Mamma Leiter was something of a malapropster. With an imperious gesture she would call attention to the imported "statutes in the nickies" of her marbled mansion in Washington...