Word: homegrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine section, jazzed up to hold the doubled circulation Publisher Cox has built since 1939, will nonetheless keep the old accent on the homespun and homegrown. Its first issue featured an interview with rarely interviewed Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell, a Journal alumna. Its second spotlighted another Georgia big-name, Lillian Smith, telling what happens to a Southerner who writes a controversial novel (Strange Fruit) about the South. (What happens: "I was told I would lose my friends, that my family would be injured. . . . We're all well and happy." Friends showed "wonderful loyalty.") The Journal paid Miss...
Taking first things first, Ohio State's homegrown, all-civilian, unbeaten team crashed head-on into once-beaten Michigan. With backfield strength about equal, this was one more gridiron battle that was decided up front. The Michigan line hit hard, but not quite so hard as Ohio's, led by 190-lb. Bill Hackett, prospective All-America guard, and Bill Willis, husky Negro tackle. Their bone-crushing tackles were mainly responsible for four Michigan fumbles...
Allied and Italian officials breathed more freely last week. But with plenty more deserters from the Allies' polyglot armies in Italy running around loose, they were not looking forward to a peaceful winter. Goggle-eyed Romans, reading the story of the Lane gang, wondered how much their homegrown desperadoes were learning from the American visitors...
...woolgrowers that the enormous stock be tossed into the sea in a modern version of the Boston Tea Party the liquidation was conducted along orthodox lines. With great dignity N.W.M.C. held a two-day auction in Boston, sold 23 million Ib. of wool at prices below the cost of homegrown wools. In Salt Lake City, the National Wool Growers Association was grimly mum. In San Antonio, the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association bleated: "The trade is taking these wools in preference to ours...
...give Canadians more radio variety and more homegrown entertainment, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. opened its second network this week. CBC hoped it would make Canadians listen more to their own broadcasts, less to programs from U.S. stations...