Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are Kern melodies from musical comedy hits and from Hollywood, patter songs and "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes," frivolity in a corn-laden rendition of "I Won't Dance" and theater with a soul in a reproduction of the original setting and arrangement of "Old Man River." Some of filmdom's greatest are hauled in to do their bits with varying results. By far the worst of these contributions is a second round with "Old Man River" with Frank Sinatra, the co-ed's Caruso, sliding all over the range in an effort to bring this great folk-tune...
...Corn was king, with 3.3 billion bushels (against a 2.6 billion average). Wheat hit 1.16 billion bushels, 37% above average. The nation's farmers also set new highs in rice, soybeans, cherries, potatoes, tobacco, peaches, pears, plums and truck crops. Only in cotton and rye was the yield down by wide margins...
Early in his career, as Georgia's Commissioner of Agriculture, he gambled $11,000 of state funds in the Chicago livestock market. He wanted to prove that Georgia's peanut-fed hogs were as good as the Midwest's corn-fed animals. He failed. But he bayed: "Sure I stole the money, but I stole it for you," and as a result was elected governor...
Abie's Irish Rose (Bing Crosby Producers; United Artists) is a tired old theatrical joke about a Jewish boy and an Irish-Catholic girl. It was undiluted corn a quarter of a century ago; by now, the course of recent history has covered the feeble joke with a rather repellent mold...
Like most farm wives, talkative, plumpish Amy Kelsey has chores aplenty. Near British Columbia's Creston (pop. 1,153) she helps her husband tend their ten-acre fruit farm, keep their unpainted frame house pin-neat, still finds time to collect stamps, grow prize wheat and corn. Thirty-five years in the Canadian West have greyed her hair but never dimmed her ardor for blue-ribbon awards. Since 1934, the wheat and corn she planted between the trees in her husband's apple orchards have won 40 prizes in U.S. and Canadian shows...