Word: corn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before that, he had fallen in love with flying. "Whenever an airplane went by, everythin' stopped for me." In his senior year at college, he and a friend decided to try their wings at a grass airfield at Waynesburg. The event had something of the character of a corn-silk smoking session behind the barn. "I tell you," he says, "there was a lot of foot-draggin' on the way. I kept wonderin' out loud if we weren't goin' the wrong way. if we oughtn't to turn around. But we went...
...Another Annapolis man moved into the top echelon of U.S. industry as soft-spoken President John R. Rhamstine, 60, took over from Chairman William Brady, 66, as chief executive of Corn Products Co., which in 1961 rang up sales of $750 million. Rhamstine (rhymes with tramline), a onetime career Marine, went to work for a Chicago management consultant in 1929, so impressed clients at Corn Products that they hired him away. Experienced in both manufacturing and finance, he is determined to expand his company's line, which already ranges far beyond corn to such things as Shinola shoe polish...
State Fair. Hollywood's third cinemadaptation of the 1932 novel by Phil Stong just about corners the market in spring corn. Credits: Pat Boone, Bobby Darin, Tom Ewell, Alice Faye, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Wally Cox and an 800-lb. Hampshire hog named George...
...Director Jose Ferrer) third hit movie-with Pat Boone, Bobby Darin. Tom Ewell, Alice Faye, Pamela Tiffin, Ann-Margret, Wally Cox and an 800-lb. Hampshire hog named George. It may not win any Oscars, but durn if it don't take the blue ribbon for country corn...
...Little Corn. Presumably this is Richter's own clergyman father. Religion can be a heavy garment for the young. If the preacher's son can be taken for Rich ter himself, he found the religious atmosphere oppressive - "his ear assailed by the peculiarly dry and sterile vulgate of the church, his young life faced by the stern presence of rituals and sacraments, of vows and austerities, of obligations and constraints, all under the overhanging shadow of the cross." But the acerbic tone shows only occasionally; in the end, after following the parson on his rounds from one parishioner...