Word: hickman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farmer was Hickman Price. Four years ago he gave up a $50,000-a-year job with Fox Film Corp. to raise wheat on an industrial scale. His new neighbors in the Texas Panhandle chortled at the idea. But in 1931 they came from miles around to see the Price Plant in full blast (TIME, July 27, 1931). If they laughed then it was because of his vast, Bunyanesque scale of operations. Out in the field he had 25 silver-painted combines and 50 tractors, working day & night. Caravans of trucks lumbered to market with his wheat. Five messengers...
...Isle of Paradise (Independent). In the last year or two, a great deal has been heard about Bali, the Dutch East Indian island whose natives live like Utopians and raise three crops of rice a year. Reporter Hickman Powell wrote a book, The Last Paradise, about Bali; Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias last year exhibited his Balinese paintings; Balinese musicians astonished Paris two years ago. The Isle of Paradise, first feature-length cinema on the subject, will multiply the already large number of people who long to go to Bali. It shows a Balinese day from sunrise to sunset. There is nothing...
HAROLD C. HICKMAN...
...their spare time between the practice of the arts (music, dancing, sculpture) and the practice of eccentric rites, such as building wooden statues to serve as decoys for devils. Balinese music influenced Debussy. Balinese dancers inspired that able U. S. dancer, Ruth Page (TIME, Nov. 25, 1929). Even before Hickman Powell's travel book, The Last Paradise, Bali was on its way toward becoming the latest and most approved resting spot for tired occidental esthetes. Further confirmation of the vogue for Bali was supplied last week when Mexican Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias exhibited in Manhattan drawings which he made...
...surprised a minute or two later when an alternate halfback, Herbert Brackett, behind brilliant blocking, ran 75 yd. for another touchdown. Except for Gene McEver's extra point-by a line plunge-after the first touchdown, there was no other scoring. The Tennessee defense-headed by Herculean Herman Hickman-held N. Y. U., once at two inches, later at five yards, from the Tennessee goal line...