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...young Indianan who worked under Harry Hopkins as a State WPAdministrator, was a longtime protege of Indianan Paul McNutt, outgrew McNutt to become increasingly important to the President as a drafter of domestic and defense programs. He is spectacled, sallow, and extremely fast of mind...
...Indiana's Purdue University last week, Henry Wallace's successor, Indianan Claude Raymond Wickard, served notice on the cotton industry that as far as the Department of Agriculture is concerned, America's choice has now been made. He reminded his audience that the decline of the U. S. farmers' export market long antedates Hitler: it began when the rest of the world began to grow corn, wheat & cotton of its own. Said the new Secretary: "There are two bales of cotton in the world today for every bale that will probably be used in the current...
...Philadelphia the only commercial gallery which tries to sell top-notch art is Carlen's, run by a crusading Indianan, Robert Carlen. Last week Carlen's opened a show of 50 works which, to a visitor not in on the secret, might have looked like the one-man show of a promising, well-trained youth, at home in a lot of media: oil, water color, gouache, lithography, etching, drawing. Actually, Carlen's exhibit was the work of two artists. They were identical twins: small, redheaded Freda & Ida Leibovitz...
Joseph A. Brandt, a rawboned, red-haired Indianan, is a character straight out of The Front Page. His family wanted him to be a preacher, but by the time he had worked his way through the University of Oklahoma and got three degrees from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, he had decided to be a newspaperman. Returning to Oklahoma, he shortly became city editor of the Tulsa Tribune. Then the fur began...
...animals were crowned healthiest girl and boy: Doris Louise Paul, 15, of Wilton Junction, Iowa and Leland Monasmith, 18, of Lane, S. Dak. For the twelfth consecutive time highest grain honors went to a Canadian, with a one-peck sample of hard red spring wheat. Corn owned by an Indianan named Lux was chosen best of the crop. A ton of Clydesdale draft horse owned by Mr. Wilson's packing company was elected best of its kind...