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News about a machine to fight the dreaded boll weevil is spreading fast through the cotton country. The inventor is Alex R. Nisbet, 83, a spry, glittering-eyed, retired cotton planter who for the past few years has been tinkering around a machine shop in Plainview, Tex. The Department of Agriculture in Washington hao never heard of him, but farmers in his neighborhood have gathered that he proposes to blow the weevils off the cotton. Last week he was ready to talk...
...Correspondent Albert Leitch handed him a fresh script, straightened him out. Cotton Ed chugged off again. Huffing & puffing through his old-style planter's mustache, old DuRant concluded his oration, turned to Leitch and bawled: "How'd I do?" A flushed engineer threw a switch, took Cotton...
...South Pacific base, he told an Associated Press reporter two tales of Jap inhumanity that he had heard. The Japs tried to force a planter to reveal the hiding place of other whites. "They . . . prodded him into leading them over some trails into the hills," said the Father. "He was a fat man, none too physically fit. He tried to drink from a river and in his exhaustion fell in. They let him drown...
...friends as an ardent garden er, a collector of objets d'art, "a character, " a wit and a superb teller of un printable stories. He was born in Como, Miss, in 1881. Papa Young was a doctor who, says Stark, would have preferred the role of Southern planter of which the Civil War deprived him. Mama Young was ''very very Scotch, and very very Southern." Stark Young, as his romanticism and rhetoric show, is pretty Southern him self...
...American Airways may have a big shake-up of its personnel in charge of snakecharming. Pan Am had hired one Akbar Shuja, a citizen of Northern India, for duty at the tea planter's bungalow which serves as barracks for Pan Am pilots there. His job: to lure hooded cobras out of the bungalow's thatched roof. Last week Pan Am began to suspect that Akbar is a slick character; specifically, that he puts the snakes back when the pilots are away, pipes them forth each evening when the pilots return. If Akbar is fired, Pan Am operating...