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...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...
...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...
...counts, George gets high marks. Emlyn Williams' eminence is unquestioned; as a playwright, his hits have included The Corn Is Green and Night Must Fall, as an actor, he has scored international hits with his one-man performances of Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas (and he will soon take over from Paul Scofield the Broadway role of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons). This "early autobiography," as he ambivalently calls it, carries him no farther than age 21. But that handful of years makes a moving story-the precarious flowering of a brilliant talent...
Consonants Left Gasping. George's real awakening began half a year later, when he won a scholarship to Holywell County School. There he met Miss Sarah Grace Cooke, 33, the original of Miss Moffat in The Corn Is Green, and an inspired teacher who discerned the sharp and hungry intelligence in the small, whey-faced boy with dilapidated shoes...