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Politics is always fair game for a laugh, and Of Thee I Sing is about a presidential election, and John P. Wintergreen (you know, Win-ter-green for Pre-si-dent), and his true love, Mary ("I'm the only person in the world who can make corn muffins without corn."). John's platform is love, the kind that sweeps the country as he proposes to Mary in all 48 states. "We appeal to your hearts, not your intelligence," the campaign manager announces, and John, of course, wins the election...
...last, they had excellent conditions for it. Good grazing land was plentiful. Parts of the Southwest had three times as much rain this crop year as last. Soil was moist for six feet down in some areas, and once-dry water holes were brimful again. Furthermore, standard-grade feed corn was selling in Chicago for an average $1.15 per bu. v. $1.31 a year ago, and cattlemen were fattening their herds at bargain prices...
...small egg, duck egg, goose egg, guinea egg, robin's egg, pigeon egg, quail egg, small pullet's egg, banty egg; walnut, English walnut, hulled walnut, hull of walnut, pecan acorn, unhulled walnut; grain of corn, few grains of maize, bean, navy bean, pea, lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist...
Planted in front of Chicago's television cameras, Tennessee's Governor Frank Clement, 37, took some blunt battering from usually kid-gloved Interviewer Norman Ross. Asked if he enlisted in the Army in World War II to help his political career, the corn-shucking 1956 Democratic keynoter shucked no corn. "Yes. sir," he said, "I thought it would help...
Following this line, Pratt announced that "my specialty is corn," and proceeded to give an illustrated eight-point talk on the way to raise $82.5 million. Pratt cited a formula indicating how much people should give: (the prospect's largest single gift) times 2 times 3 (years...