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...problem was that farmers kept producing surpluses, and there was no mechanism to maintain prices. The solution long advocated by an obscure Montana State College professor named Milburn L. Wilson was to restrict production, but that would require an unheard-of amount of Government supervision. With the election of Roosevelt, Wilson was able to convince the incoming Agriculture Secretary, Henry Wallace, to carry out his idea. "I tell you frankly that it is a new and untrod path," Roosevelt declared in sending the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) to Congress that May, "but . . . an unprecedented condition calls for the trial...
...DIED. Milburn Stone, 75, veteran character actor who as the vinegary yet avuncular Doc Adams in TV's popular Gunsmoke series played friend and foil to James Arness's Matt Dillon and Amanda Blake's Miss Kitty throughout the show's 20-year (1955-75) run; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. Stone became so strongly identified with the role, for which he won an Emmy, that he once quipped, "To everyone except my family I'm Doc. Getting so I have to restrain myself from making house calls...
...appeals in July; a few days later another court ordered the immediate merger of the 73 Louisville public schools with the 107 schools in surrounding Jefferson County to facilitate the busing. (The newly merged school district has a total enrollment of 130,000 students, including 26,000 blacks.) Milburn T. Maupin, a black former acting superintendent of Louisville schools, then organized and directed a human-relations campaign designed to minimize racial tensions. He set up a speakers' bureau of school officials, principals and teachers who delivered hundreds of talks to community and parents' groups urging compliance with...
...Scott Fitzgerald's novella. French magazines are calling it le style tennis or the Deauville look. But it might just as easily be described as the Newport-to-Palm Beach mood, or the John Held Jr. look (after the cartoonist who lampooned the '20s) or the Devereux Milburn look (for the '20s polo hero). Polo, tennis and golf-not as they were played but as they were watched-are central to the sporting-set concept...
Hickman--Harvard's third entry at the Invitational--ran a respectable 7.3 in the high harders but was outclassed by a field including Olympic gold-medalist Rod Milburn. Hickman's 7.3 did not get him into the finals...