Word: picker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warmed haze, the corn was turning golden brown far ahead of normal time. Goodhue had a new tractor and corn picker. The price was high, "but a fellow can pay for it easier than he could ten years ago," said Goodhue. Certainly a fellow could in Iowa, which last year reported the biggest gain in personal income (33%) of any state...
Your excellent article on Minnesota's Senator Humphrey [TIME, Jan. 17] leaves some hard questions unanswered. Assuming that he is "too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise," is he not just another Senator Claghorn with a "new look"? Is modern statecraft so simple an art that it can be mastered by one who learns his economics from South Dakota dust storms, and campaigns by visiting all the county fairs and eating hot dogs until they "come out of his ears...
...What Am I All About?" His critics insist that he is too cocky, too slick, too shallow, too ambitious, a brain-picker rather than a scholar, clever without being wise. Said one of his Minneapolis lieutenants: "The trouble with Humphrey is he never takes time out. He's never alone with himself. If the guy would only sit down with himself and say, 'What am I all about?' But he's afraid to ask himself that question...
...South Carolina cotton picker, Larry Winters worked his way through Howard University as a delivery boy, elevator operator and porter. Three days before graduation, he got his first break: the role of Emperor of Haiti in a production of Negro Composer Clarence Cameron White's opera Quango. He made a hit in it, but not his fortune. Soon afterwards he took a job as a singing waiter in Manhattan's Belmont Plaza Hotel...
Mail Call. In Eloy, Ariz., when assured that there was no mail for him, Cotton-Picker Earl Neal shot it out with Postmaster J. C. Garrett; both were killed...