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Bringing Home the Mangel-Wurzel...
...article on Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler, TIME [April 5] says: "He spent summers picking mangel-wurzels." This evokes a picture of long summer days spent gathering something resembling scuppernongs. Does TIME imagine that mangel-wurzels grow on trees, or on vines? A mangel-wurzel is a variety of beet, only larger and considerably less tasty, grown as a cattle food. A mangel-wurzel is a stubborn root that parts company with the earth only after a vigorous tussle, and I don't envy Rab Butler his summer, even though he was paid...
Politics & Mangel-Wurzels. Rab was born Dec. 9, 1902, in the mud-walled village of Attock Serai in northwest India (now Pakistan). The Butlers were a famous family in India. Rab's father, the late Sir Montagu S. D. Butler, became a governor of the Central Provinces, and was knighted for his services before going home to become a master of Cambridge's Pembroke College. His uncle, a close friend of Nehru's father, became governor of Burma. His Scottish mother was related to the great liberal economist Adam Smith. The eldest of four children, young...
Riches more than mind can picture, Wheat and barley, oats and hay, Clover, beans and mangel-wurzels Shall be ours upon that...
British flower farmers have dug up their precious flower bulbs and have planted root crops-swedes, turnips, mangel-wurzels, oats and onions. But some fields still blaze with flowers, and black marketers from the city offer high prices. Snorted one Cornish farmer: "Maybe there were a few who took the chance of making an easy pound when it was offered to them, but the rest of us sold nothing to them 'foreigners...