Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your article on Ellington was a most welcome diversion from the news of the Nile and the Democratic circus in Chicago. Only one criticism: the shot of the Cotton Club shows the highness of hi-de-ho, Cab Galloway, with the chicks, and not the Duke. Of course Cab spent many moons at that bistro. But please let this not discourage you from printing a shot of Duke at the Cotton Club...
...Reader Marsh is right. Says Photographer Max Haas: "I took that picture in the Cotton Club some 25 years ago, thought it was Ellington. The picture has run in publications in the U.S. and all over the world. Until now, no questions were raised." For a picture of the Duke, celebrating his 3Qth birthday at the Cotton Club...
...outlined by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, the agreement calls for India to pay about $200 million for 130 million bu. of U.S. wheat (more than 15% of the U.S. surplus), $70 million for 500,000 bales of cotton, $26.4 million for 440 million Ibs. of rice (more than 20% of the total U.S. Government rice stocks), $6,000,000 for 6,000,000 Ibs. of tobacco and $3,500,000 for dairy products...
...sleepy corn-and-cotton hamlet of Coyolito, near El Salvador's Pacific coast, last week's big soccer match promised special excitement. Aside from their sporting rivalry, Captain Jesus Rivera of the local sport club and Ricardo Ayala, captain of a team of workmen from the nearby railroad, were mortal enemies in private life. When they trotted onto the field, both were wearing unusual football equipment: long-barreled pistols...
Lift That Bale. In Fresno, Calif., Mrs. Margaret Dudley won a divorce after testifying that her husband charged her 50? a day for driving her to the fields where they worked picking cotton...