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Harry Blaine, a new-comer to this year's team, has been assigned to the 121-pound class. Harry wrestled in three meets last year, winning a fall in one. His style has improved considerably, forever, and he should put up a good fight...
...Comer. Far less comforting was a third speech. Donald Comer comes from an old Alabama family whose Barbour County plantation, after growing cotton for a hundred years, is now a profitable stock farm planted to clover, grasses, corn, legumes. No farmer himself, Donald Comer is chairman of Avondale Mills, one of the South's large cotton consumers...
...done." His solution: diversification and mechanization of southern farms, restoration of their soil and forests, industrialization. The cotton problem would then take care of itself. But "you can't clear the stream below as long as the old sow wallows in the spring above." Mr. Comer figured that a minimum 32? an hour in a factory was better for a Georgia boy than 90? a day in the fields...
Almost pure New Dealery, Mr. Comer's visions of a postwar cotton belt were more complicated than idealistic Mr. Clayton's or earthy Mr. Johnston's. But between the three of them, they mapped on cotton's dismal present all its alternatives for years to come...
...time and one all-important second from his 100. He has dropped from 54 plus to 53 plus in the century. Lonnie Stowell and Ted McNitt are two other standout members of the free-style brigade. Both are big Seniors, Stowell a seasoned veteran, and McNitt a late-comer to the Varsity. Last year he was a House swimmer, and now he is paired with Stowell in the 50. McNitt's 50 against Brown was one of the best meet performances by a Harvard swimmer in that event in several years. Stowell is a consistent 54 man in the century...