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...Break. Out of the leading Sherman's turret popped a bandaged head. The man with the bandage and the big shiner on his right eye yelled the proper password. He was Lieut. Colonel Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, commanding the 4th Armored Division's rescue spearhead...
When chipper, billiards-playing Graham Creighton Patterson* stepped in to run the Farm Journal in 1935 (backed by the copious cash of arch-Republicans Joseph and Howard Pew), its circulation was clotted at 1,100.000, its size at 16 to 18 pages. Its bookkeeping was done in red. This month's 72-page Farm Journal and Farmer's Wife (wed in 1939) went to more than 2,700,000 subscribers, and Patterson chalked his cue for a long reverse shot. Success had frozen his cue ball fast against the paper shortage...
...remain to be played, a dozen or more All-America teams to be picked. The first important one was published this week by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, after polling 86 sportswriters. Its features: five Marines, five Notre Dame players, only one civilian (Notre Dame's Creighton Miller, who was discharged from the Army for high blood pressure). The lineup...
...Eggman Creighton is only one professional among 218,000. Last year they produced the astronomical total of 48 billion eggs. This year they must top that score by as many more millions of eggs as they can possibly wheedle out of the hard-worked...
...Eggman Creighton believes in scientific farming, free enterprise and White Leg horns. The latter, he says, are the most efficient egg-producing machines yet dis covered. He seeks to improve his best layers by keeping strict records - how many eggs laid, their weight, the physical characteristics of chicks hatched from them, etc. He is president of the U.S. Record of Performance Breeders Association, also chairman of the National Poul try Defense Committee. (Sideline: he is Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives.) For his pedigreed chicks Egg man Creighton gets 40? to $1.75 each; the common-or-garden variety brings...