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Speaking at Indiana University in Bloomington, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt admitted that she'd like to have a couple of Hoosier hogs for her Hyde Park, N.Y. farm if she could get them for $100 each. Farmer L. L. Stewart of Kirklin, Ind. sent her two 300-lb. black & white Hampshire gilts, for which he ordinarily gets $200 each. Said Farmer Stewart philosophically: "She set her price...
...with considerable interest that I read your article concerning Farmer William L. Booth and the "Hoosier Hawaiian Air-A-Van" [TIME...
Farmer William L. Booth, a stocky, rugged-looking man, had read the ad in the Farm Bureau magazine. It sounded good: "HOOSIER HAWAIIAN AIR-A-VAN: Away from home only 22 days, yet 18 full BIG days of Hawaiian enjoyment. Actually see and visit Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head, huge volcanoes. Live on Waikiki Beach for a week and take part in a big broadcast." He decided to take his wife and eleven-year-old son, too. The price for the whole family...
This week Farmer Booth and his family, and 21 other Indiana farmers and wives on the Hoosier Hawaiian Air-a-Van boarded a plane at the Indianapolis airport. "They're all just good, average farmers," explained a Farm Bureau man. "None of them is the top brass kind of farmer. They're all pretty much alike, these Indiana farmers...
...student of music." But on the other hand, he did have an idea, and he was a native Indianian, and that was more than most of the other invited composers could say as they began to compose short symphonic pieces for the centennial of Hoosier Poet James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916). "I got on the telephone with [Indianapolis Symphony Conductor] Fabien Sevitzky and told him what I had in mind," said Hoagy. "He encouraged me to go ahead...