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Sergeant John Hay '38, grandson of Secretary of State Hay and one of the reviewers of the Monthly while at Harvard, is now assistant picture editor. Before the war, he was Washington correspondent for the Charleston News and Courier...
...swarm of bees in May Is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June Is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July Is not worth...
Youngest is Lieut. Colonel Chesley Gordon Peterson, 22-year-old executive operations officer of the Army Air Corps' Fourth Group in Britain. A tall, lean, hay-haired farm boy from Santaquin, Utah (pop. 1,115), he has been fighting in the air for nearly three years, has flown in battle across the Channel more than 100 times. Thrown out of the U.S. Air Corps when his age was discovered, he enlisted with the R.A.F. a year and four months before Pearl Harbor, left for England on his 20th birthday. He led the R.A.F.'s First Eagle Squadron...
...with the war, busting to assert its independence, and judging by the temper of many members, eager to throw its weight in constructive rather than destructive fashion. Of party politics there would be plenty, but each side had a shrewd notion that the successful way to make political hay was to beat the other in getting on with an effective, efficient...
There are new kinds of soybeans with a higher oil content than the old. An improved alfalfa resists wilt. Two brand-new types of red clover can yield a ton more of hay an acre than the old, once-popular ordinary variety that fell into disfavor because it was not winter hardy. A Canadian wild rye, new as a forage crop, promises heavier yields than the common meadow grass. Flax, a minor crop until 1942, is getting a tremendous boost from the introduction of machines to handle it. Hybrid corn, no newcomer in the Middle-west, is being improved...