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Beginner's Plum. Georgia-born Fred Hooper has been doing all right since 1923, the year he cleared a 15-mile stretch of land on contract for the Florida East Coast Railroad. Out of that shoestring venture grew a flourishing construction business. Hooper later bought a 5,038-acre farm in Alabama's "black belt" country and a long-legged quarter-horse named Royal Prince, that was unbeautiful but fast. Winning match races with this "moneymaking horse," he dented so many rich Georgia and Florida farmers that people stopped betting against...
Under a warm sun, Stratford-upon-Avon was stirring to life last week. White swans and yellow punts rippled on the gentle blue Avon, and along its turfy banks, lovers lolled and plum trees flowered. But for the Warwickshire town's 13,000 citizens there was a surer sign of the season: the wheels were turning again in Stratford's $3,000,000-a-year tourist industry...
Hollywood's leading citizens, aglitter and atwitter one evening last week in the little Academy Award Theater, gulped when they heard the announcement. To Britain, target of many a ripe tomato for its quotas on U.S. films, went the choicest plum of U.S. filmdom: the Oscar for the year's best picture. The winner: J. Arthur Rank's Hamlet (TIME, June...
...plum blossoms and toads are out a month early in the warmest Japanese winter for years. Nevertheless, Japan's farmers, like farmers anywhere, worry about the weather-and everything else. Last week TIME Correspondent Sam Welles listened to their troubles in backroad villages less than 100 miles from Tokyo where no American had been seen since V-J day. He cabled...
...trained young man or woman proctor. All go to school from 8 to 12:30 every weekday. Afternoons are spent in games or chores. Meals are as good as the average German fare-two light meals a day and one "big" dinner (such as broth, goulash, sauerkraut, potatoes, plum pudding...