Word: hay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tennessee. By the time he was ten, his pre-dawn routine included milking eight cows and helping feed the hogs and mules. The big breakfast that followed was easily worked off in a three-mile hike to school. Summers it was full time at chopping corn, suckering tobacco, pitching hay. By the time he was eleven he was plowing a mule to a double shovel, and the next year he was allowed now and then to drive the new tractor...
...Gift of the week: $2,500,000 from Financier John Hay Whitney, '26, to help Yale buy up the three nearby New Haven high schools, in place of which the university hopes one day to have buildings of its own. With $3,000,000 from Yale, New Haven plans to put up two new high schools in the city...
Yale University officials have announced that a $2,500,000 donation from John Hay Whitney, a New York investor, will now permit the school to occupy the site of a projected eleventh upperclass college...
Charging the Taxpayer. Meanwhile, the Democrats made what hay they could out of discontent on the farm. Democratic National Chairman Paul Butler last week proposed 90% parity for basic crops on family-size farms, plus the extension of supports to hogs, eggs, poultry, beef cattle, whole milk and butterfat. Democrats generally favor the Brannan Plan, under which the farmers would sell their goods in the marketplace for what they could get, and the Government would make up the difference to a predetermined "fair return." Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, still recovering from a heart attack, announced that new farm price...
Died. Fernand Léger, 74, French "machine-age primitive" painter; of a heart attack; in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Regarded as one of the masters of School-of-Paris art, Leger (rhymes with beige-hay), the son of a Norman farmer, went to Paris in 1898 to study painting, earned his living as a photo retoucher. In 1910 he experimented with and abandoned the cubist techniques of Braque and Picasso, was later influenced by Primitivist Rousseau, moved on to a preoccupation with quilt-like color patterns, bunchy human figures in machine-like forms. After living...