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...brightest lights of U.S. business. Among the rebelling foundation trustees-appointed by R. H. Kress himself-are New York Stock Exchange President G. Keith Funston; Frank M. Folsom, executive committee chairman of Radio Corp. of America; and Harold H. Helm, board chairman of Manhattan's Chemical Corn Exchange Bank...
...losses at $25 to $30 million, hoped that the remaining 25% would not be lost. The effect was quickly felt in scanty offerings, high prices at fresh-vegetable counters in the North and East. In January a year ago, 1,787 railroad carloads of Florida-grown fresh beans, spinach, corn, new potatoes, tomatoes and other vegetables moved to market. Last month the flow was 736 carloads...
...banquet for Britain's M.P.s in the House of Commons dining hall, London's top-ranking master barber (the guild boss of hairdressers, perfumers and wigmakers) laid all about him with cutting comments on the hair styles of leading politicians, who often look, cried he, "like corn crakes [a short-billed rail] in a gale!" Of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS): "He ruins the whole effect by wings of hair sticking out on either side of his face and by a mustache that one would hardly call elegant." Of Laborites Hugh Gaitskell and Aneurin Bevan: "Quite...
Your Jan. 27 article on chiropody-podiatry must have been authored by a 90-year-old hermit. No one would consider calling a chiropodist-podiatrist a "corn cutter" any more than they would consider calling Dr. Jonas Salk a "pill pusher...
...vote was 68% for no Government help. In the South, once a stronghold for farm subsidizers, the vote was 53%, and on the West Coast it was 58%. Even in the Central states, 43% of the farmers voting preferred no Government help-probably not enough to influence G.O.P. Corn Belt Congressmen, who are still determined to plow under Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson for advocating reduced price supports...