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Gene Sarazen, Golden Age golf champion, sold his 200-acre Connecticut farm to radio's Gabriel Heatter for some $85,-ooo, said he was through with "serious" golf for good, had got rid of the farm to concentrate on selling precision tools. Now 41, he observed: "Pretty soon it won't be a question of whether I can play four rounds in a championship but whether I can walk them." Henry Krakow, who as "King Levinsky" was a notable clown among the heavyweights (and lasted 141 seconds with Joe Louis), was picked up in Detroit for Chicago detectives...
Less than five days before, those freight ers had been loaded in the U.S. Crack air line pilots, to whom ocean-flying had be come routine, had taken them across 15,-ooo miles of war-char ted airways with no more trouble than they once hauled mail and passengers between New York and Chicago. It was the biggest mass freight flight in aviation history. And although its total freight load was only 90 tons, airmen knew that when peace comes that load could be multiplied almost indefinitely...
...TIME, JAN. 25) "PARISIUS HAD A GOOD AND TESTED IDEA: TO DRAW A MILLION SMALL FARMERS INTO THE NATION'S CRITICAL FOOD PRODUCTION BATTLE BY PROVIDING THEM SUPERVISION AND CREDIT FOR NEEDED EQUIPMENT, FEED AND FERTILIZER." BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS REPORTS THAT 2,OOO,OOO LOW-INCOME FARMERS PRODUCE ONLY 3% OF FARM PRODUCTS GOING TO MARKET. EVERY FARMER KNOWS THAT NEEDED FOOD INCREASE CAN COME ONLY FROM 4,OOO,OOO FARMS PRODUCING 97% OF COMMODITIES GOING TO MARKET AND MAINLY FROM 3,OOO,OOO TOP FARMS THAT PRODUCE 86%. ALL CREDIT TO PRACTICAL FARMER CLAUDE WICKARD FOR REJECTING...
...Punjab. By straightforward administration and sense-making pleas for Hindu-Moslem unity, he succeeded in uniting the major political parties of the Punjab's 28 millions-56% Moslems, 27% Hindu, 13% warrior Sikhs-into a coalition Government which brought internal peace to the Province and has raised 500,-ooo troops to fight the Axis. Last week, at Lahore, the fruitful work of Sir Sikander was ended: a sudden heart attack brought death to Britain's stanchest friend in India...
Behind this pinpoint controversy looms an important issue. The Government's $25,-ooo salary ceiling has severely reduced the amount of work movie stars can do for pay. Hollywood wants its stars to use up their working capital in pictures, not on the air. But if all studios joined 20th Century's boycott, radio would lose a majority of its best names. Gene Tierney's husband's cigars might be the entering wedge...