Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late to be a Halloween goblin, too early to be a Christmas Santa. Actor Charles Laughton was trapped 'tween seasons with enough facial forestry to make a sensation at a woodchoppers' ball. Actually, he had let himself go to seed for a role as King Lear at Stratford-on-Avon's Shakespearean theater. Leaving London on a brief trip to Paris, where presumably he would roam incognito. Laughton muffled: "I'll be glad to get a lawnmower on this...
Misery Concentrated. The seed of self-punishment flowers in the conspiratorial world of the homosexual. Its life, as one Bergler patient related, is "misery concentrated, guilt heightened, depression the order of the day." Male homosexuals are pathologically jealous and "unfaithful." Some have relations with more than 100 males a year. Few relationships last more than several weeks; the most common type is the "one-night stand" or the five-minute meeting in a public park or even a comfort station. With contacts so casual, venereal disease runs wild. (One survey showed that almost 10% of male homosexuals are carriers...
Last week at Grand Ridge, Ill., Arthur Walter Seed Co. was offering farmers a pick-your-yield service. The farmer merely brings in a soil sample, writes down whatever number of bushels per acre he desires, and in half an hour gets back a seed and fertilizer prescription. Says Vice President Everett C. Walter: "It's just as easy to raise 100 bushels an acre corn as 50 bushels. The only chance is weather, and there is not too much chance in that...
...long run home, around Scotland and Ireland. Many ships broke up in violent squalls or split open on rocks along the Irish coast, and the natives grimly knocked out some Spaniards' brains as the men lay exhausted on the beaches. Few lived, despite legend, says Mattingly, to seed the Celts with dark skins and black eyes. Weeks later Medina Sidonia brought the remaining two-thirds of his fighting strength home. It was an impressive achievement, but history has given him little praise...
Pigs & Digs. For Kukuruznik (corn man) Khrushchev, the big treat of the week was his trip to Iowa for an inspection of advanced farming practices, corn and beef production near Coon Rapids. His host: crag-faced, cranky Millionaire Roswell Garst, who has been to Russia twice to sell corn seed to the U.S.S.R. There amid the alien corn the Premier of the U.S.S.R., Garst, and the tenuous U.S.-Soviet relations nearly got trampled for good under a 300-man brigade of shouting, shoving newsmen (see PRESS...