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...Banana is an old burlesque term for the star of the show, the main act on the bill, the comedian with the baggiest pants. In Hy Kraft's story, the Top Banana has reached the highest point in the amusement industry. He has his own television show...
...Longing, by Arthur Koestler. Agnostic Hydie and the commissar; a Koestler allegory of East, West and Hy-die's slow enlightenment. No Darkness at Noon (TIME...
After a weekend at Las Vegas, Nev., Songwriters Johnny Lange, Walter Henry ("Hy") Heath and Fred Glickman were driving back to Hollywood, and getting what enjoyment they could from the desert scenery. On their way through Death Valley they spotted an occasional prospector trudging along beside his burro. "Nobody said anything at first," recalls dark-eyed Johnny Lange, "but then it occurred to us, like spontaneous combustion, you might say, that here was an idea for a song." They forgot the scenery, worked out words & music before they hit Hollywood. Glickman, who owns a small recording company, made a master...
Last week, after 13 years of experimentation, young Henry was well on the way He had sold 15 million of his hybrid chickens this year and his Hy-Line Poultry Farms (a subdivision of his father's seed company) expects to sell more than 20 million more in the 1950 season. Only about 475,000 chicks came directly off the four Wallace farms last year; the others were raised by breeders on a royalty basis or hatched from eggs sold to poultrymen at fancy prices. Noting that 9% of Iowa's chickens were already hybrids, young Henry predicted...
...Trouble. Although the U.S. is now glutted with eggs, thanks to the farm support program (TIME, Oct. 3), widespread use of hybrids like the Hy-Lines might solve that problem eventually. Hybrids could enable farmers to produce so cheaply, says Wallace, that they could accept much lower prices and still make a profit. Not all customers who have bought hybrids like them. Some say that the birds are too jittery. Furthermore, hybrid eggs might not be preferred in every market: a light cream color, the eggs are too dark for New Yorkers who like white eggs and too light...