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Died. Francis Albert ("Bee") Behymer, 86, veteran (since 1888) reporter and feature writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch whose "cornfield journalism" has been a Midwest institution for 68 years; in Alton, Ill. A little (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) wiry man with unruly grey hair, "Mr. Bee" went to the P-D ten years after its founding (1878) by the first Joseph Pulitzer, became a standard prop at back-country murder trials and hillbilly feuds, stamped his copy with his own brand of homespun humor. ("Methuselah lived 969 years and all they said about him was that...
...missile program have been brief and vague. Glenn L. Martin Co. revealed recently, for instance, that it will build a $5,000,000 plant, undoubtedly for missiles, near Denver. Shortly after such bits of news are made public, a bolt of industrial lightning strikes the locality mentioned. A cornfield or patch of desert blossoms with bulldozers; roads and railroads unroll; a great, blank-looking building grows like a hard-shelled mushroom; odd and often monstrous machines arrive on flatcars and trailer-trucks. Houses are hammered together in new residential areas, and a new breed of men move into town. They...
...Just any average cornfield wouldn't do," a publicity release explains. "To recreate for people the world of their childhood wonders ... the producers got an agricultural expert . . . October-maturing corn had to be raised by July 14 . . . 2,100 stalks. 14 neat rows . . . hand-planted, hand-fed, hand-watered . . . reached the skyscraping height of 16 feet." Not only is this hyperbolic flora somewhat higher than is necessary-the eye of the average elephant is only about eight feet from the ground-but also it is of such rich green pluperfection that it looks like nothing more than a cardboard...
Somehow, while the stewardess reassured the 36 passengers, flight 329's pilot and co-pilot got the nose up. The plane made a belly landing, skidded to a stop in a cornfield. The Convair was wrecked, but no one was seriously injured...
...have appeared. There is a good chance that even the smoothest-looking parts of the moon may be cut-up badlands. Dr. Wilkins suggests that moon voyagers make no advance decisions about landing sites. Their spaceship had better approach with caution, like a crippled airplane picking out the likeliest cornfield...