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...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...
...irrigated Central Valley, spring soaked apricot trees, vineyards, alfalfa stands, tomato rows and the hopes of thousands of farmers. Sample casualty: the cotton grower, afraid that he would not be able to work his fields before the normal May 10 planting deadline; to work them later would mean the risk of bad weather during the fall picking season, lower-grade cotton, lower prices. Cotton was a $250 million crop in the valley last year...
...Star, worked part-time as a telephone operator to buy newsprint-which he paid for on a day-to-day basis. The paper prospered and, with its earnings, Byrd leased an apple orchard. He now owns about 7,000 acres and is the world's largest individual apple grower...
Founded by Missouri Apple Grower Paul C. Stark (father of the "victory garden" idea during World War II), the N.C.C.C.I, has a straightforward message: Washington should do its best to check inflation, but it is clearly up to the rest of the nation to help out with self-restraint. On that point Dwight Eisenhower fully agreed with Apple Grower Stark. Said Ike at his midweek press conference: "Government, no matter what its policies, cannot, of itself, make certain of the soundness of the dollar . . . There must be statesmanlike action, both by business and by labor...
Forced to Flee. When he set up his Fromm Music Foundation four years ago, Paul Fromm was nourishing an ambition as old as his student days in Germany. The son of a prosperous wine grower, he early became an enthusiastic supporter of contemporary German music, was on the point of establishing a music foundation in his homeland when he was forced to flee the country during Hitler's pogroms of 1938. In the U.S. he prospered quickly, set up his own wine-importing firm and bought into several other businesses. By 1952 he was ready to turn his attention...