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Henry Browne Wallace got his start in the chicken business when he was a twelve-year-old Des Moines schoolboy On Easter Sunday 1926, his mother gave him a dozen baby chicks from the dime store and he began raising them in his backyard, with some advice from his father, Henry Agard Wallace. No politician then father Henry was spending his time developing his hybrid corn,* forming the Pioneer Hi-Bred Corn Co. to sell the seed, and editing Wallaces' Farmer. When the corn became a success (over 99% of Iowa corn springs from some brand of hybrid ternel...
Last week, after 13 years of experimentation, young Henry was well on the way He had sold 15 million of his hybrid chickens this year and his Hy-Line Poultry Farms (a subdivision of his father's seed company) expects to sell more than 20 million more in the 1950 season. Only about 475,000 chicks came directly off the four Wallace farms last year; the others were raised by breeders on a royalty basis or hatched from eggs sold to poultrymen at fancy prices. Noting that 9% of Iowa's chickens were already hybrids, young Henry predicted...
Medium height (5 ft. 10½ in.) and rangy, Henry is a 34-year-old copy of his father -bristling eyebrows and all. He also has some of his father's food fads (he eats 1,300 eggs a year), doesn't smoke or drink "Never got around to trying"). But he has no interest in politics (he dodges questions about his father because "father gets castrated so often in print") and reads only books or magazines pertaining to his work...
Died. Oswald Garrison Villard, 77, crusading editor (the New York Evening Post, 1897-1918; the Nation, 1918-32); in Manhattan. Heir to the diehard liberalism of his grandfather, Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, and to the fortune of his father, Henry Villard (one of the builders of the Northern Pacific Railroad), Editor Villard spent a lifetime plumping for such causes as civil liberties and pacifism, finally came to the conclusion that most of his heroes (notably Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, Al Smith and F.D.R.) had feet of clay...
Thieves' Highway (20th Century-Fox) is a flashy, second-rate film with a simple, violent story. On his first haul, a fruit trucker (Richard Conte) foils some market thieves, avenges a robbery of his father, sells his apples at a profit and gets the girl. The movie makes no pretentions to anything but entertainment; its only message, if any: think twice before going into the fruit-trucking trade. There have been better trucking movies (They Drive By Night), but none so fast or so violent. Most spectacular shot: Millard Mitchell burning alive in the remains of his rickety truck...