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...from 18 to 35 lb. an hour. But last week's pickers were after something more than a day's pay. When the two-hour limit was up, one of the pickers had turned in 129 Ib. of "good clean cotton." He was 15-year-old Harold Mason, a shy, gangling Senath, Mo. schoolboy, youngest competitor in the field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cotton Pickers | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...picked that cotton for Planter Hughes the day before, young Mason would have been paid about 75?. Last week he got $1,000 and the title "first world's champion cotton picker." Descendant of a long line of farm folk, Schoolboy Mason intends to use his prize money for an agriculture course at the University of Missouri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Cotton Pickers | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Leonard Cummings has been a steady starter at one end, but the other flank is still a question mark. Tom Bridge, John Teal, and Al Reeves have all seen service, but Teal, a rangy wingman, had the situation in hand last week. At center Autle Mason, while not measuring up to some of his bigger team-mates, has kept his position securely in hand with his accurate snap-backs...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: SPORTS of the CRIMSON | 10/24/1940 | See Source »

Divorced. George Grant Mason Jr., 36, wealthy socialite Civil Aeronautics Authority member; by blonde Washington socialite Jane Kendall Mason, 30, whom Grace Goodhue Coolidge called the "most beautiful girl ever to enter the White House"; after 13 married years; in Tampa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Southern Rebel. South of what was once the Mason and Dixon border, rebellion has been mixed up traditionally with conservatism rather than with reform. Lawrence Lee is a Jeffersonian Southerner, an Alabaman who went north to Albemarle County, Va.-"the world's one real county-in all the spiritual significance of that word"-where he studied at the University of Virginia, for a time was editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review. A skillful writer of fastidious pastoral verse, Lee has been thinking about Thomas Jefferson for so long that some of that Virginia gentleman's democratic magnanimity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

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