Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patterson), a paranoid expianist, is a mildly sinister human cipher and the sole boarder of a dilapidated rooming house at an English seaside resort. His landlady, Meg (Ruth White) cuddles and cossets him; unfailingly, she treats Stanley and her whey-faced husband to the breakfast specialty of the house, corn flakes and fried bread. Stanley has even less stomach for breakfast when he learns that two men named Goldberg (Ed Flanders) and McCann (Edward Winter) have come to the house as roomers...
...torn turkeys. Last year a record 10,460,000 contracts were bought and sold; the rate this year is almost the same. Traders lured by the idea of making $10,000 out of pork bellies on a $700 investment constitute a surprising cross section of America. A survey of corn futures not long ago showed that, along with the professional speculators, contracts were also held by lawyers (178), clerks and stenographers (122), housewives (339) and students (66). Unfortunately, in a fast-moving market like commodities, most of the amateurs hesitate too long about closing out losing contracts. Another survey, this...
...Yankee stay-at-home who spent most of his life in the farm country around Stony Brook, Long Island. He was a picturesque figure in a horse-drawn carriage, equipped as a studio with skylight and easel, touring the dirt roads to paint the farmers horse trading, napping, husking corn. He produced scores of paintings before his death in 1868 at 61, and among them was a charming rendition of cider-making time...
...dozen or more; back in 1952 there were tractors on only 47% of all U.S. farms. While the tractor remains the mainstay-some 5,000,000 are in use on today's farms-the agricultural arsenal also includes 880,000 grain combines, 775,000 hay balers, 655,000 corn pickers and shelters. Virtually all of the nation's wheat, corn and sugar beets are now harvested by machine. So are most soybeans, oats, cotton...
...evening's sole venture into the contemporary idiom was unfortunately more a venture into the field of corn. Kirke Mechem's The Shepherd and His Love was given its first performance. This frivolous piece of trivia proved to be little more than a sophisticated homage to Richard Rodgers. But it was performed with spirit and must have pleased the composer who was present for the occasion...