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Ever since, Communist Gomulka has been trying vainly to lure the peasants back into what his government calls "cooperatives." Biggest lures: fat, long-term loans to any group that wants to socialize itself; cut-rate machinery and fertilizer, plus state money to buy livestock and state land if needed. As a result, 499 collectives were formed in 1958-but in the same year 470 were dissolved. Typical example: five farmers near Warsaw announced that they intended to form a cooperative farm. The government lent them funds to buy pigs and offered land to raise them on. Starting with eight brood...
Marie Torre's well-kept secret is the name of the CBS "spokesman" who told her that Judy Garland "doesn't want to work . . . because something is bothering her [and] I wouldn't be surprised if it's because she thinks she's terribly fat." After this statement appeared in a Torre column in January 1957, Songstress Garland filed a $1,393,333 suit against CBS for libel and breach of contract. Subpoenaed as a witness, Columnist Torre refused to name her informant, pleading the confidential relationship of reporter to source.* Last month...
...tribute of apples; she gets worms. Brown-haired, 33-year-old Martha Duff, a Baptist missionary, linguist vacationing at her home in Oral, Tenn. after five years of teaching the Amueshas, recalls: "We were sitting around a fire when several little boys came in. They had found some big fat worms and were about to get into a fight over them. Their mother took over; the worms were put on sticks and left long enough over a fire to get warm, not too hot. The mother rescued one worm and held it over to me, saying, 'You just...
Layers of Fat. Ralph Cordiner has always made good use of his time. He was born in 1900 on his father's 1,280-acre wheat farm near Walla Walla, Wash., just eight years after a genial Quaker named Charles A. Coffin merged two electrical firms to found General Electric. Cordiner went to small Whitman College, where he worked his way through school by doing odd jobs and selling wooden-paddle washing machines for the Pacific Power & Light Co. He went to work for Pacific Power after graduation, became such a star salesman that he was soon lured away...
Because it is so fat and not-very-explosive, Audience is difficult to divide fairly into its many parts. A reader must pick out what soothes or jostles his prejudice, which in reading Audience is his whim. I liked best a story about the aforementioned blueberries, suitably titled "The Blueberries," written by Bankson Means; another story, "A Tom Go For Terry," by Robert Wernick; a poem called "Birthday Letter," by Allen Grossman; another poem, "Suicide," by Arthur Freeman; and some drawings of some sad old houses by Janet Doub. The magazine costs six bits and that means that each...