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...Lincoln, Neb., Governor Dwight Griswold began reckoning the cost of his bet with 27 other Governors that Nebraska would sell a bigger percentage of bonds. The payoff: a corn-fed hog to each. His problem: how to get around an OPA regulation that he must pay full ration points (about 810 red points-a 50-week supply) for each & every...
...heads and hoards together, producing a script that Hope proceeds to tear apart-cutting, sharpening, fitting to character. Finally, before the Tuesday night broadcast (NBC -10 p.m. E.W.T.), there is a Sunday night sealed-in-the-studio tryout at which the audience acts as blue pencil and Hope runs hog-wild...
Governor Dwight Griswold of Nebraska, sure that his state could outsell all others in the new War Bond drive, wrote a put-up-or-shut-up letter to all other governors, wagered "one beautiful, big, corn-fed Nebraska hog." Governor Homer Adkins of Arkansas promptly threw into the kitty one white-faced Arkansas calf...
Even at 13 Miss McGuire was doing well for herself on the stage. In an Omaha production of A Kiss For Cinderella she tried her best not to hog the show, for the sake of a shy, obscure young Omaha actor named Henry Fonda, who has never forgotten the kindness. But her automatic ability to charm an audience did not save Dorothy McGuire a few hard years. Her skillful replacement of Martha Scott in Our Town went unnoticed; her understudying of Julie Haydon in The Time of Your Life got her nowhere...
Said one countryman: "If you want to eat corn, you'd better be a hog." Headlined the Charleston, S.C. News & Courier: "CALAMITY...