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...resulting humiliations. Kondry, as an example, had been through a reform school, labelled "Reformed," and thrown back into society only to find he couldn't get a job. China, for them, offers material promise, but not the emotional comfort the men need. The dilemma is captured in a former farmboy (Andrew Wilking) who can't quite master the prevalent jargon. When Barnholdt goads him with stories about home, the boy shouts, "Stop talking like that or next accusation period, I'm going to criticize you. You asshole-aggressive...
...Iowa farmboy who paid his way through Northwestern University by boxing at club fights, Gookin went on to Harvard Business School, and signed up with Heinz in 1945 after varied jobs in other companies. Hired as an accountant, he worked his way up to comptroller and financial vice president, made his mark after Chairman Heinz, aware that the company had become too stolid domestically, made him a troubleshooter to improve Heinz's U.S. business. Gookin did it partly by revising Heinz's somewhat outdated sales techniques, partly by proposing the acquisition of such companies as Star Kist Tuna...
Meet Jerry Koosman, 24. "I haven't had this much fun since my third-grade picnic," says Koosman, a slightly flaky 6-ft. 3-in., 205-lb. farmboy from Appleton, Minn. (pop. 3,000), who had seen only two major-league games before he first took the mound for the Mets, and whose performance so far this spring is startling even to his manager. "I wish I could take credit for him," said a dazed Gil Hodges, after Koosman posted a 3-1 victory over the Houston Astros last week...
...Moors. Sir Herbert, who despises institutional learning, and so, of course, became a professor (of fine arts at Edinburgh), writes with grace and clarity of his multiple lives. There is Herbert the dreaming farmboy on the moors of Yorkshire, Captain Read, M.C., D.S.O., an infantry captain in the Green Howards, and Herbert Read, the philosopher, poet and esthetician. Finally, because of his passionate belief that where a man lives is a vital part of man's true history, he traces his roots in the past of Yorkshire's lonely and beautiful North Riding, and describes the people...
Just as it dominates the U.S. chocolate market, the Hershey Corp.-and the ever-present sweet scent of its products-dominates the town of Hershey, in the undulating Pennsylvania Dutch country. Town and company alike were confected by patriarchal Milton S. Hershey, an ambitious farmboy who learned to make taffies that he called "French Secrets," went broke in three candy businesses before he built Hershey Chocolate in 1903 on the cornfields surrounding the house in which he was born. Exploiting a turn-of-the-century switch in U.S. tastes from other candies to chocolate, Milton Hershey...