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Died. Robert D. Towne, 86, onetime Universalist minister who propounded, while he was editor of the now-defunct humor weekly Judge, the famed "How-old-is-Ann?" riddle that intrigued the U.S.; after long illness; in Ambler, Pa. The riddle: "Mary is 24. She is twice as old as Ann...
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Thanks to such gadgets, the gross of the materials-handling equipment industry has grown from $250 million in 1948 to $1 billion in 1950. Sales are expected to exceed $2.5 billion this year. The biggest equipment-maker, Michigan's Clark Equipment Co., shot from $18 million sales in 1940...
The story got around and the label stuck. In their passionately partisan study of Pigs: From Cave to Corn Belt, Authors Charles Wayland Towne (retired publicity director for Anaconda Copper) and Edward Norris Wentworth (director of Armour's Livestock Bureau) make it clear that a pork packer as Uncle...
The Mortgage Lifter. Before they plunge into their descriptions of breeds and crossbreeds and their careful detailing of modern packinghouse procedures, Authors Towne and Wentworth attempt to lift their hero out of the sty and onto the pedestal. A pig, they say, can swim, pull a small cart, even substitute...