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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Known as the "Blue Lupine Queen," Miss Myrick can challenge the "Kudzu Kid" any time. Blue Lupine, incidentally, is a nitrogen-bearing plant used extensively for winter cover crops in the South ... It stops erosion, and adds millions to the income of Georgia farmers...
...Macon Telegraph (circ. 34,000) had as many readers as the Kudzu Kid's Atlanta Constitution (circ. 187,000), Publisher Anderson's case for his farm editor would carry more weight. It is nevertheless true that Sue Myrick, born & raised on an oldtime cotton plantation, knows the answers to many Southern questions.* Her pet promotion is soil conservation, and she has done much to popularize the Blue Lupine, as Cope has the Kudzu...
Harlem's Sugar Ray Robinson, welterweight (147 Ibs.) champion of the world, danced in his corner almost unnoticed. All eyes in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium were on the challenger, Cuba's Gerardo ("Kid Gavilan") Gonzales. Most of the 27,805 customers seemed to think that the Cuban had a real chance for the crown...
After deliberately letting Kid Gavilan set a fast pace for five rounds, Robinson opened his bag of tricks. He set traps and sprung them with a master's touch (e.g., following three left jabs with a left hook instead of an orthodox right). By the 10th round, ringsiders had the feeling that they were watching a precision machine. In the 14th round, Sugar Ray was in such confident command that he stuck out his tongue at Joe Louis, who had picked Gavilan...
...hand at musicals, Composer Berlin might have fused lifetime knowledge with momentary inspiration. But he, too, has apparently taken pains to be as much (and as mechanically) like himself as possible. There are several nice tunes, however, and Only for Americans has some lively lyrics which kid the Paris tourist trade...