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Yaller bird, let my corn alone...
...nation's public institutions, few have played a livelier role than the State University of Iowa. Sprawled over both banks of the Iowa River, it stands in the very heart of the U.S. corn belt. It deals out culture in huge, generous doses, turns out novelists, geologists and hydraulic engineers of a quality almost any campus would envy. As much as any place, S.U.I. has become a symbol of a whole region's growing up. The nickname sometimes given it: the Athens of the West...
...last surviving wartime-emergency measures for bolstering the domestic economy is the rigid, 90%-of-parity price support for "basic" crops (corn, wheat, cotton, rice and peanuts). Last week the U.S. Senate put the Government-support program on a flexible 82½%-90% formula...
...Methodist Church stored gallons of pickled beets and great bowls of applesauce in the demonstration refrigerators of Rummels' appliance store on Main Street. At mid-morning the ladies began carrying the food to a special luncheon tent, along with 60 fried chickens, cords of fresh sweet corn, and the 100-egg birthday cake baked by Mrs. Harold Heick...
...plenty of opportunities to leap daringly from crag to crag, horse to horse, and frying pan to fire. In time everybody is after him, but the one to catch him first is Nalinle (Jean Peters), whose object is squawhood. Together they build a little mountain hideout and plant some corn. When Army scouts find them, Massai, Nalinle and their brand-new papoose prove too homey a family to break up, so Massai goes free. How the scouts straighten out this arbitrary law enforcement with headquarters will have to wait for the sequel, to be titled, no doubt, Son of Apache...