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...mechanical cotton picker will do as much work in one day as 40 men, cut picking costs from as high as $52.55 to $18.70 a bale...
...third person in the U.S. is a would-be tunesmith. But since the only way to be sure of not missing a hit is to listen to everything, most companies assign experts to plow through the plankton-like mass of material. The Tin Pan Alley title for the top picker in each record company is "A & R man" (for Artists and Repertory). The A & R man's job is to be music-hungry seven days a week, while maintaining a gourmet's selectivity...
...other activities (TIME, Oct. 27) before they bought control of RKO from Howard Hughes. Last week Chairman Grant, who had been hired at $2,000 a week by the new owners to run the company, turned in his resignation. Out with him went his cousin, Executive Vice President Arnold Picker...
...Apple Picker. From Quantico the Stevenson motorcade moved on to Richmond, where Saturday afternoon crowds on Richmond's streets gave Stevenson only a lukewarm reception. That evening at Richmond's Mosque Auditorium, Virginia's political boss, Senator Harry Byrd, was conspicuously missing from the speaker's platform. Busy picking apples, Byrd's friends said. But the audience was pleased as Stevenson invoked the magic name of Robert E. Lee and praised the Confederacy's constitution...
Surely I'm not the only TIME reader who is now convinced that the G.O.P. picked a lemon in ex-Lemon Picker Nixon. In their eager grasp for the California vote, the men in Chicago apparently forgot that only the shadow of Fate would stand between their choice and the presidency of our United States...