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...Keep the Cull. A Mormon farmer's son with an Iowa State College master's degree in crop breeding and genetics, stocky, callused P. D. Spilsbury was determined to do something about his future farmers. He begged parents for land and animals, persuaded the school's trustees to put aside $5,000 a year to buy livestock, and then sell it to the boys at cost. Then he and his students began experimenting with feed, found that the blemished cull potatoes discarded by farmers could provide, when dried, 90% of a fat steer's diet...
...full flush of victory, Ohio's U.S. Senator-elect George H. Bender bubbled off a letter to Richard Cull, Dayton News political reporter: "Dear Dick - This is just a note to thank you for all you did in my behalf during the senatorial campaign. I valued the endorsement of the News, and feel sure that you had something to do with my obtaining it. Indeed, I am grateful, and hope that I may continue to merit the approval of your paper and yourself. With fondest regards, I am cordially, George H. Bender...
...great number of you who buy books, TIME tries to offer a selective guide, rather than give "instruction," on what is best in contemporary reading. Few people have the time to read the 200-odd books reviewed in the section each year; fewer still have the opportunity to cull the lists of 10,000 or more books published in this country each year. TIME tries in its reviews to tell you enough about the better books to help you decide which ones you would most like to read...
...secondary-school enrollment would, of course, not be applicable here, because public opinion is too solidly entrenched in the belief that every child has the right and the capacity to finish high school. It would be a great step forward if some sort of competitive examination were given, to cull out the most troublesome and the most illiterate from the secondary schools, if for no other purpose than to provide our teachers with better working conditions . . . There would, of course, still remain the problem of what to do with the academic culls after they are relieved from competition...
...cultural trendspotters, the big attraction was the Whitney Museum's Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting-a serious effort to cull the best 150 U.S. pictures of the year. If the Whitney is right, it was a great year for introspective tube-squeezing and brush-squiggling. Typical example of the nonobjective work that dominated the show: William Baziotes' Phantasm, with weird blues, greens and mauves melting across the canvas like sherbet on warm linoleum...