Word: genes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from 385 acres and a few dairy cattle to nearly 800 acres and a herd of 200 Herefords. James Henry Thompson of Salem, Ore., Star Farmer in 1942, originally paid $15,000 for the property he now values at $55,000, lives in a modern ranch-style house. Ray Gene Cinnamon, of Garber, Okla., Star Farmer in 1947, began as a sheepherder, now operates an 800-acre farm and owns a producing oil well. Today's F.F.A. leaders, building on the experience of their predecessors, have even greater opportunities...
...about it was the atmosphere of Park Avenue hayride: its coy, commercial pretense that its outhouse-and-leotards folksiness was the essence of America itself. With its first frames the camera swallows this pretension whole. As the hero (Gordon MacRae) rides into the picture, looking about as indigenous as Gene Autry, and singing in a well-schooled voice about the corn that's as high as an elephant's eye, the camera glides through what is probably the most expensive field of the native grain ever grown...
...Always Fair Weather. A sharp little musical that needles TV-without trying, of course, to burst the Electronic Bubble; with Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd (TIME, Sept...
...Always Fair Weather. A sharp little musical that needles TV-without trying, of course, to burst the Electronic Bubble; with Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, Michael Kidd (TIME, Sept...
Into the Big Time. Ed got another hungry look at a world he was to love when he worked as a caddy at Rye's Apawamis Club, where, after toting golf bags for 18 holes, he would compare tips with a fellow caddy named Gene Sarazen. who also grew up to make a name for himself. At Port Chester High School, Ed won eleven major letters but got "frightening" grades in everything except English. He also landed his first newspaper job: high-school correspondent for the Port Chester Daily Item...