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...over and impress him, but he always failed. Sam disappointed his father by refusing to become a clergyman; the canon infuriated Sam by pestering him mercilessly about his future intentions. As Sam had no idea what these should be, his numerous suggestions only made the canon more cantankerous. Cotton-farming in Liberia, bookselling, homeopathic medicine, farming, the army, schoolmastering and painting-all passed in review, until the canon blew up. "Not one sixpence will you receive from me," he wrote, "till you come to your senses...
...Cabinet to issue a decree that put her and her friends into a position to corner the cotton market. Zeezee netted thousands; the government lost millions...
Even so, Jukebox Favorite Eartha Kitt breaks through the film barrier at a disturbing velocity. This copper-colored daughter of a North Carolina cotton farmer, who quit the Katherine Dunham troupe to try for the big money, is neatly made, has a cobra-cold allure, sings well in both French and English, and dances with the unerring grace of a cat. More to the point, she makes the spectator feel like an iron filing when the magnet passes...
...last week from the quiet life on his South Salem, N.Y. farm to attend a Des Moines farm meeting. The introduction done, Wallace arose to make "my most important speech in several years." Those who remembered him as the avant-garde New Dealer and author of Government corn and cotton loans in 1933 were in for a surprise: Henry Wallace urged a U.S. farm program almost the same as that put forth by the Republican Eisenhower Administration. Wallace's key point: "In the long run, the ever-normal granary program can be sustained only by a flexible price-support...
...doled out pills to Longfellow and Emerson; there is a bank that has been called the "most literate bank in the world" (among the 100 "books published by our customers in the past two years" it once displayed: James Conant's Education and Liberty, Arthur Schlesinjer's Cotton Kingdom, Geologist Reginald Daly's Igneous Rock & the Depths of the Earth...