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...show opens with a five-minute news summary, followed by sport results, a nationwide weather rundown ("People in New York seem to want to know whether it's raining in Omaha"), and an interview with a guest who may be a fashion designer or a Connecticut tobacco grower. Finally, there is a twelve-minute news package delivered by Garroway, Jim Fleming and Jack Lescoulie ("We have three commentators-no waiting"). The second hour of Today is pretty much a repeat of the first, and a third hour, off the air in the East, is telecast to the later-rising...
Died. Hubert B. ("Dutch") Leonard,* 60, southpaw pitcher who fireballed his way to fame in the American League (1913-25), later made a fortune as a California grape-grower; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Fresno. In 1914, on the pitching staff of the Boston Red Sox (which also included Babe Ruth), he had his best season, winning 19 games and losing five, for an average of 1.01earned runs a game. After helping Boston to world championships in 1915 and 1916, he quit baseball in 1925, retired to his Fresno ranch, where he could sit in any room...
Other success stories are hardly less impressive. A Maine trawler skipper bought his wife a pair to keep her company while he was at sea, has since retired on the chinchilla income. A Connecticut tobacco grower took up chinchillas as a sideline, gave up his 7 5-acre tobacco farm when he began to net $20,000 a year on his animals. Pro & Con. But the breeders are careful not to make a large-scale test of the market for skins. Not for another five years or so will the U.S. chinchilla population be big enough (estimated as high...
...Hair grower...
When the hearing finished, however, a Mississippi cotton grower walked over to Mike Di Salle, shook his hand warmly and said: "I don't like your order, but I sure do admire your courage." Grinned Mike Di Salle: "The only thing that can happen to me is that I might have to go back to Toledo. And I like Toledo...