Word: grower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Herbert Clutter, set in the peaceful, prosperous, picture-book country west of Garden City, Kans. (pop. 11,000), seemed the nation's least likely setting for coldblooded, methodical murder. And the Clutter family seemed the nation's least likely victims. Herb Clutter, 48, a well-heeled wheat-grower, was just about the most prominent man in the region. He was chairman of the Kansas Conference of Farm Organizations and Cooperatives, a former member of the federal Farm Credit Board, a civic leader who headed the building committee that got Garden City's new Methodist Church translated from...
...northern vineyards enjoyed a season of incomparable warmth, free of the violent hailstorms that slash the vines and bruise the grapes. At the same time there has been enough moisture in the ground to keep the vines fresh. "The leaves are still green as we pick," says one grower. "This means a glycerine content that will give the vintage an exceptional body." Another factor is that the four substandard harvests before this year's harvest had the effect of resting the vines. This summer they surged forward "to make up for lost time...
Replied Anderson to the U.S.'s No. 1 apple-grower: "Harry, you really know how to grow good apples, but you sure don't know how to count votes...
Just Peanuts. Trained as a lawyer (Washburn College in Topeka), Garvey gave up law practice in three years, was soon building a 100,000-acre wheat 'and cattle empire. In 1947 he became the world's No. i grower with a crop of close to 1,000,000 bushels. As any U.S. taxpayer should know, wheat is one of the basic commodities supported by the federal farm program-and in the last four years Garvey has received $791,488 in support loans for wheat he raised, plus $405,647 in cash from the federal soil bank program...
...Guido & Grower. The gag had an unlikely beginning. It was born in Toots Shor's Manhattan saloon one afternoon in 1956, when Pat and a pal, Lynn Phillips, were relaxing from their jobs as time salesmen for NBCTV. They were already practiced hands at the dialect spoof. Pat had picked up a talent for mimicry from his father, a successful nightclub comic of the '30s, and he and his friend used their skill as a "sales adjunct" when they wanted to warm up prospects with a laugh or two. That afternoon in Shor's, the Andrea Doria...