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FEED-GRAIN CROP will grow to new high this year, slice pork prices next summer. Because of favorable weather and 47-million-ton carryover from surplus in earlier years, output of feed corn, oats, barley and grain sorghums will rise 6% to 213 million tons...
...pepper-corn" haired bushmen of remote Africa will receive a visit this year from members of an expedition sponsored jointly by the Peabody Museum and the Smithsonian Institute...
Numbering about 6,000, the Bushmen are short in stature with extremely curly "pepper-corn" hair. Their skin is dark but with unique reddish hues. Their language and religion are also distinctive...
...spreading some elfin cheer (6:30 to 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.) with a $325,000 "free treatment" of Pinocchio, with Walter Slezak, Fran Allison, Jerry Colonna, Stubby Kaye, Savoyard Martyn Green, and as the wooden hero, Mickey Rooney, 35. Says Scriptwriter Yasha Frank: "It's corny, but corn is the staff of entertainment life." ¶ CBS's The Edsel Show (8 to 9 p.m., E.D.T.) will crowd The Ed Sullivan Show off the air (the third time in three years) to present Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Armstrong in a $400,000 production choreographed by Eugene...
...highbrow knows that TV, a sinister substitute for books, is no more likely to encourage worthwhile reading than corn pone is to whet a taste for caviar. But last week the opening of a televised New York University course in comparative literature lifted the highbrows' eyebrows. Though aired by Manhattan's WCBS-TV at the brain-taxing hour of 6:30 a.m., Assistant Professor Floyd Zulli Jr.'s Sunrise Semester started a rush in the city's bookshops for the first volume on his reading list: Stendhal's The Red and the Black. Some sleepy...