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...appeared simultaneously with the report of a projected compulsory sports program. What good would the latter do to increase the physical toughness of Harvard students if the greater majority of these, who have been accustomed in the past to having their extra rations of fish, flesh, and fowl, are from now on to go partially hungry? An army marches on its stomach. And, assuredly, very few persons will be availing themselves of "seconds," now that they will have to pay additional for them...
Beth Gill, 17, of Nesbitt, De Soto County, Miss., who raised 2,077 fowl; sold 6,254 dozen eggs; canned 1,799 quarts; refinished 45 pieces of furniture; earned $3,839. She is a freshman at Mississippi State College for Women...
Orlo E. Ruppert, 20, of Nokomis, Montgomery County, Ill., who in seven years raised 135 ewes and lambs, 169 sows and pigs and more than 2,000 fowl; earned $13,243; won 38 championships. A high-school graduate, he is now in a vocational agriculture class...
Wayne Thorndyke, 17, of Lambert, Alfalfa County, Okla., who in nine years raised 128 cattle, 230 sheep, 20 pigs, 950 fowl, 1,478 acres of crops; earned...
Sometimes over-mental, illogical, actionless, Suspicion has enough Grade-A Hitchcock in it to be notable, even in failure. Best example: a Government crime-laboratory expert, carving his broiled fowl at the dinner table with the deadly scalpel strokes of a surgeon dissecting a cadaver, pauses to comment: "A very interesting corpse dropped in the other...