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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...
...only five years after Mendel's heredity laws were rediscovered, Dr. Shull (who was then at the Carnegie Institution's station on Long Island) and the late Dr. Edward Murray East (at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station) started their experiments with corn hybridization. The Department of Agriculture, foreseeing laborious years of further experiment ahead, was slow to follow their lead. Thoroughgoing research programs at corn-belt stations did not get under way until 1920, and until 1933 practically no hybrid corn was grown commercially. Not until last year were seed supplies plentiful enough for growers to take their...
Rotund, white-bearded Dr. Shull, who looks like Santa Claus, does not feel gypped at having received no royalties so long as he is recognized as the Santa Claus of hybrid corn. But he remarked last week that if he had received the merest fraction of 1? an acre, he would have been able to set up an independent department of botany at Princeton. It rather irks him that, the way things are, botany is corralled in Princeton's department of biology...