Word: shull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wallace was one of the first to market a commercial strain of hybrid seed, but he did not invent the process. Many present-day methods of hybrid corn production can be traced back to the work of Professor George H. Shull around 1906 at the Station for Experimental Evolution in Cold Spring Harbor...
GEORGE H. SHULL...
Last fall a 30-year-old ex-newspaperman who also hung out in Walgreen's decided that these kids needed a "press" behind them. On a bank roll of $8, Leo Shull created it. In a rickety-rackety "office" where day beds jostled typewriters he started a daily mimeographed newssheet called Actors Cues. First issues rounded up every available scrap of casting news. Soon Editor Shull added a personals column, reprinted the critics' reviews, insulted the critics, lambasted snotty producers, tossed in editorials, wisecracks, rumors...
...kids in Walgreen's ate it up. They became not only Actors Cues readers but legmen as well. By last week Actors Cues claimed, a little wildly, that it had got actors 500 jobs. Shull had become a one-man clearinghouse, with scouts hunting him up and producers giving him their casting lists. In addition, Editor Shull had organized playwrighting and acting classes for his flock, wangled hundreds of free theater tickets for them, laid plans to get them an eating-and meeting-place of their own and, above all, an experimental theater. (A benefit dance last week netted...