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...support of farm programs). By the late 1930s, its ardor for the New Deal had cooled, and with the start of World War II the Farm Bureau's break with the Roosevelt Administration was com plete. In 1947, the election of Iowa Corn and Hog Farmer Allen Kline as president signaled the organization's move to the right. "Kline brought us to look at the economic issues in agriculture," Shuman explains. "His administration said, 'We want less government, not more.' It was a simple change, but pretty fundamental. I can't claim credit for that...
Riling the Folks. Shuman likes to characterize his administration as "plodding, hardworking, do-what-you-have-to -do -to -meet -the - problems-as -they-come." Said he: "Kline inspired people more than I can. He had the ability to excite people." Some Shuman watchers would testify that Charlie can get people excited-and riled-pretty easily himself. Last year, in Philadelphia, Shuman got plenty of mileage out of comparing the Government support programs to narcotics...
...FRED KLINE San Francisco...
Nowadays pop art has made Rivers respectable. To even the most apocalyptic, often reluctant, critics, he appears as the logical, stable span between Pollock, Kline and De Kooning and the newcomers who actually attach real beer cans to their paintings. His 155-work exhibition that opens this week at Brandeis University's Rose Art Museum,* proves that Rivers is exciting in his own right. Even the commonplace cliché of General George fording the Delaware looks good beside a giant representation of a Campbell soup can. The crucial difference is that Rivers, unlike the pop artists, does not leave...
...might be married, with two kids, stand only 5 ft. 1 in. in his socks and wear his hair like a scrub brush. But he was obviously going places, and so Andrea Kline, a Queens teen, picked Astronaut Gus Grissom, 39, for her private hero four years ago, sent him letters and gifts and kept hoping that one day . . . Now Gus and John Young were safely down from their Gemini voyage into space, and in Manhattan for the parades and banquets. Into the Waldorf-Astoria marched Andrea, and ran right up to the dais, where she handed the startled Grissom...