Word: cornstalks
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Insights & Irreverence. One day last week, an odd procession of professors paced the place, each carrying a cornstalk. They looked like primitive rain worshipers. In a sense they were. Happy fugitives from many a brain-drying university, they were free to ponder-corn. And to their mentor. Botanist Edgar Anderson of St. Louis' Washington University, corn is the kernel of everything...
...dropped by him) and single night entry without getting ruffled. "The only one around here who has an ulcer is the producer, and he brought it over with him from the Gobel show," says an associate. "I don't think being all strung up like a cornstalk fiddle helps," explains Ernie...
...this Night Chant painting, a protective rainbow encloses the picture on the North, West and South. The East (at top here) is left open, because good influences come from that direction. In the center of the painting is a sacred cornstalk, growing from what the Navajos call a "Shapen Cloud." Four benevolent Humpback deities stand at the outer edges, carrying staffs and black clouds filled with the fruits of the earth. Grouped around the cornstalk are eight gods and goddesses gathering healing pollen. On the north are the roundheaded earth gods, black and red, with white-coated, oblong-headed goddesses...
...Lindsay, Okla. (pop. 3,018), farmers' trucks lumbered into the streets last week with hundreds of bales of an odd-looking crop: a thin cornstalk that seemed in need of a haircut. It was broomcorn, the dry, tasteless straw from which 45 million brooms a year are made. As rapidly as the trucks drew up to the curb, buyers pulled test brushes out of the bales and began bidding. They made a clean sweep of the stocks, and sent the price up to an alltime average high of $400 a ton v. $255 last year...
...spare as a cornstalk. His greyness of face was due to an intestinal bug which he had picked up during his most recent trip to Japan. Partly because of his own demands to be shown everything, he was sorely overworked. He had been through years of terrifying strain. Once he said he did not think he could keep it up "if the end weren't in sight." By the end he meant his date of retirement from the J.C.S.: August 1951. His deep-seated calm probably accounted for his durability...