Word: farmboy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Odell has the stature of a Wotan, the jowl of a bloodhound and a temper to match. An Iowa farmboy, he went to San Francisco in 1923, later set up as a mortgage broker in Santa Barbara. In 1927 he and some friends decided to acquire small, little-known Pacific States...
...Grant, Neb., on May 15, the life of Shirley Temple will be endangered." When Cinemactress Temple's father read this note in her fan mail three months ago, he notified G-men. Last week, by tracing the sale of the stationery in Grant, they arrested 16-year-old Farmboy Sterling Walrod Powell, voracious reader of cinemagazines, released him on $1,000 bail after he confessed...
...Hero of a ballad, Darius Green and His Flying Machine, by John Townsend Trowbridge (1878-1916). Farmboy Green, 14, eager to fly, built homemade wings, jumped from a rooftop, landed unhappily...
...Western Conference shot put record (49 ft. 5½ in.) made by Minnesota's Clarence Munn. Two Negroes named Brooks won titles in the field. Michigan's Negro Brooker Brooks threw a discus 148 ft. 1¼ in., beating Illinois' giant Frank Purma, Kansas farmboy who has done 154 ft. 1½ in. Chicago's Negro John Brooks, a 142-lb. student of political science, crowded the Conference record broad jump, made by another Negro Dehart Hubbard, with a predicted jump...
...starter was the Lockheed monoplane Fort Worth, a white ship like the world-circling Winnie Mae but with a Wright motor of only 220 h. p. The pilots: Reginald L. Robbins, a Texas farmboy who taught himself to fly several years ago and in 1929 took the endurance record away from the Army's Question Mark (TIME, June 3, 1929); and Harry S. Jones, bachelor sportsman and promoter who had handled the refuelling plane for that endurance flight. Practiced in the tricks of refuelling in midair, Robbins & Jones decided not to try to force an overloaded plane into...