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...Although pickers made good money (12½? a box; a crack picker can make $22 a day), there were still not enough of them when the harvest started. The Government sent in 1,000 German prisoners of war, from the late Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps. The P.O.W.s lived in special camps, were paid 80? a day in scrip if they met the easy standard of 65 boxes...
...brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary than revolutionary. Last week the movement passed a milestone. Near Clarksdale, Miss., where John Rust began a tryout of an improved picker, a pioneering plantation harvested the first commercial cotton crop ever produced, from planting to baling, entirely by machine...
Broadway's No. 1 angel is urbane, likable, 52-year-old Howard Stix Cullman. By all the rules of the game, he also should be Broadway's No. 1 sucker. Far from it, he is just about the smartest picker in show business. Since last spring he has picked seven hits in a row; he owns from 7% to 20% of The Voice of the Turtle, Kiss and Tell, Othello, Lovers and Friends, A Connecticut Yankee, The Cherry Orchard and One Touch of Venus. He also owns 20% of Life With Father and 25% of Arsenic...
Died. Lieut. Colonel (ret.) Charles Robert Morris, 67, deviser of the pellets-in-a-fishbowl process of drawing the first draft numbers; in Lebanon, N.J. He blindfolded Pellet-Picker Newton D. Baker in the first drawing of World War I, blindfolded Henry L. Stimson in World War II. History-minded, he used the same blindfold in both drawings...
...general consensus of opinion was that Carl Seligman's crew would be the one to heat in the forthcoming race. Seligman, who stroked the second Freshman two years ago, proved a canny picker, and assembled a veteran crew which on paper should go well...