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After finishing last week's breakfast of tomato juice, scrambled eggs, hot biscuits and coffee, guests listened to bespectacled Rev. John J. Queally (at head of table, see cut) of Washington's Transfiguration Episcopal Church. He rose without introduction, to pour out "thoughts from my heart which I hope will aid my hearers." When he finished, there was a moment or two of silence, then a benediction. His topic: "Unfairness." Some of his thoughts: "Quiet thinking and meditation are necessary so that our minds can meet and get strength to meet the tasks ahead. . . . People must seek peace...
...check with the New Hampshire Liquor Authority showed that rum moves much better in that state, and has ever since Elizar Wheelock of Dartmouth College went out to convert the Indians with one thousand gallons of it. Yale tastes, according to New Haven grocers, run from tomato to jungle juice...
...year-old Boston Herald regards tradition as no laughing matter. Yet for 16 years it has permitted itself and its readers a daily exception. In the cartoons of droll, deadpanned Francis W. Dahl, it has needled the Watch & Ward Society, kidded the champions of real New England (tomato-less) clam chowder,*poked fun at the customs and costumes of Beacon Hill...
Growth-regulating chemicals are working an agricultural revolution. They defoliate cotton plants, enabling mechanical cotton pickers to gather clean cotton, something they could not do before. They make apples hang longer on trees. They kill weeds selectively. They semicastrate tomato flowers, and produce seedless tomatoes...
...biggest part of their business is tomato plants, which bring in the most money, but involve the most risk. A cold wave during the six-week period, when tomato plants must be shipped, can ruin an entire crop. Three successive bad seasons in the early '203 almost bankrupted Fulwood. But one good season gave him enough profit to take his whole family to Europe for the summer. This year the Fulwoods are assured of their biggest season ever, expect to make their crop. For the uncertainty of his high-risk business, Fulwood has a nerve sedative. Said...