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...months ago a ham show opened in Chicago. Last week it was still running there. It had become a civic institution. It had played to 150,000 people and grossed over $250,000. The theatre was sold out three weeks in advance, and it was a good bet that, before it was through, the show would break all records for Chicago business...
...sensible State of Ohio such harebrained schemes as California's Ham & Eggs, such a treasury-busting law as Colorado's. Safe & sound sat Ohio full of colleges and memories of Presidents. But last week, in spite of its stout constitution and sound heredity, Ohio was scared stiff that it might be going crazy. What scared Ohio was not only a bogey called the Bigelow Plan. Worse was the bogeyman himself-Herbert Seely Bigelow...
Born in Burlington, Vt., where his father kept a general store displaying a sign: "Ham and Segars, Smoked and Un-smoked," John Dewey raised Yankee common sense to the status of a full-fledged philosophical system. Essence of his philosophy is indicated in the proverb: "The proof of the pudding is in the eating." Truth, to John Dewey, is not fixed or absolute, changes as conditions change. And he believes that the highest virtue is intelligence, that intelligence means resolving a problem with the answer that 1) is most workable, 2) makes the most people happy. Moral basis...
...Puritan team outplayed the Gold Coasters throughout the game, as Sam Binnian, Ham Daughaday, and Hammy Smith starred on the defense, preventing Adams from getting even one first down. Lou Bachrach and Bill Magruder at end were the best players for the losers...
This is only one more example of young (47) Jay C.'s industrial nonconformism. From the Hormel plant at Austin, Minn., he upset the packing industry with canned whole ham, spiced ham, canned whole chicken, beef stock soups and, lately, Spam (canned pork for making spam-wiches, etc.). There two years ago he signed a closed shop contract with C. I. O., defying packing industry precedent. He also guaranteed his workers 52 paychecks a year, and this year started a joint earnings plan which lets employes share the Hormel surplus (if any) with stockholders on a profits-wages ratio...