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...store, handed out succulent slices of Talmadge Ham to sample-minded passersby. A country girl who learned how to cure hams back on the farm, able Businesswoman Betty Talmadge started her enterprise to make pin money in 1952, last year reportedly peddled 62,000 hams, pinned down a whole-hog gross...
...hardest hit by the slump is the "new" farmer, who moved onto the farm after World War II when original costs were high. Such a farmer is Melvin Anderson, 40, who rents and farms 230 acres owned by a prosperous big farmer in Henry County, Ill., the "hog capital of the country...
Fiery TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey, who has fired 18 of his friends from his Friends show (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS-TV), finally went whole hog. Last week he fired everybody, including himself, as of July 25, which will be folksy old Friends' last telecast. This leaves Godfrey Friendless but certainly not jobless; with all his other programs he will still be on the air 12½ hours a week...
...that was the closest thing to a pollster's dream of the perfect test of November. Of Wisconsin's 2,200,000 voters, some 58% live in and around cities, and the 42% rural population ranges from Cadillac-owning dairy farmers to the hard-pressed hog raisers and cattlemen along the Mississippi River and in the southwest. Even better, there was only one Democrat, Estes Kefauver, running against one Republican, Ike Eisenhower (although Ike had a nuisance challenge for the nomination from Ashland's fiery McCarthyite editor, John B. Chappie...
...general election, principally because the weather was stormy and there were few exciting local contests on the ballots. In well-to-do farm counties, the Democratic percentage climbed moderately, e.g., in Jefferson County from 1952-3 33% to 37%. In the marginal farm areas and in some hog-raising areas, the Democratic vote climbed more sharply, e.g., in Iowa County from...