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Wild Bill Cantrell in My Sweetie and Bandleader Guy Lombardo in Tempo VI. Jones had it all worked out. On the straightaways, Slo-Mo-Shun skimmed along with its 1,500-h.p. Allison engine wide open, leaving a spectacular rooster-tail wake that shot 30 ft. into the air. On the turns, to save damage to his boat's lightweight hull, Driver Jones slowed down like a Sunday excursionist...
Died. Howard Edward Babcock, 61, farm-born Cornell farm economist; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He argued that the U.S. farm economy would be bolstered, and U.S. health improved, if farmers would raise more livestock and consumers would eat more livestock products, devised a calf-faced, rooster-crested turkey-winged cow-pig-sheep, the "Unimal" (TIME, June 19), as a symbol of his program...
...Manhattan at a record $1.20 a lb. Cornell Farm Economist H. E. Babcock, one of the foremost exponents of "the livestock economy," had developed a symbol to tell the story. Bab-cock's "Unimal" is a queer creature with the face of a calf, the crest of a rooster, the forequarters of a sheep, the udder of a cow, the wings of a turkey and the hindquarters of a pig (see cut). The critter represents a composite of the kind of products farmers should raise more of and consumers should eat more...
...royalties of 2? on each order of chicken served. By last week some 335 million orders of chicken had been sold under his royalty setup. Osborne also sells or leases to his franchise customers everything from patented chicken fryers to water glasses bearing his trademark (a design showing a rooster standing in a clump of grass with a broken golf club...
Last year Osborne's gross from his restaurants was $965,000, his income from royalties and supplies $195,000. This year he expects to take in about $2,000,000, is as cocky as a rooster about the future. Crowed he: "Within five years I hope to see 2,000 restaurants displaying that rooster with the broken golf club...