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...Then there are the two fathers of Negro culture in America. Dr. George Washington Carver who came up from slavery, learned to go to school, devoted himself to his own research in "God's little workshop," and eventually developed 300 useful products from the peanut, 118 from the sweet potato, and more than 60 from the pecan. And W. C. Handy, who taught himself how to play a $1.75 trumpet, joined a band of roving minstrels, and became famous writing songs like "St. Louis Blues." After his success, his father told him, "Sonny, I am very proud...
Kroeker has also produced a phonograph record called Ufa Wa Mtedza (Peanut Flour); its rock songs were composed and sung by Peace Corpsman Jack Allison, who dispenses health hints musically. Sample lyric: "Keep away the flies from your baby's eyes." When not at work, Kroeker, the only U.S. businessman in Malawi, relaxes by climbing nearby Mt. Mlanje (9,843 ft.) or spending time with his Malawian wife and three daughters. Though he hopes to turn Nzeru over to Malawian management "possibly within two years," he plans to stay on. He is thinking of diversifying into other products...
...camera to help dramatize a nationwide shortage, Carson lifted his head from the pillow and cracked: "Ed's is the only blood with a 10-minute head on it." Actually, Ed is an average drinker who likes a couple of martinis with meals or with the two peanut butter sandwiches that he sometimes eats when he arrives late at night at his home in suburban Bronxville...
...Tootsie Roll. Obviously, one thing on their minds is space exploration, and Pillsbury's latest goody is the "Space Food Stick." Derived from the concentrated foods developed by Pillsbury for U.S. astronauts, the stick looks like a Tootsie Roll and is soft and chewy. It comes in chocolate, peanut butter or tomato flavors. The stick, promoted with TV spots showing a Cape Kennedy blastoff, is being test-marketed in seven U.S. cities. Packs of 14 sell for 490. Space fans, candy addicts and weight watchers seem to eat it up (each stick has only 41 calories), and marketing will...
...from $150 to $300 a month in Class D). Artistically, the Oilers, a collection of pot-bellied baseball gypsies and frightened teen-agers, were not especially memorable, but the people did not care. In that little ball park next to the railroad tracks and the The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, the town took on an identity and became as big as New York City--especially on nights when the Oilers, say, had bombarded Onion Davis, the invincible lefthander of the Dothan Browns...