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...Eric Wentworth '54 of Chicago and Wigglesworth Hall was yesterday named freshman football manager, Charles J. Keever '51, varsity football manager, announced yesterday...
...Hampshire's Wentworth by-the-Sea Hotel canceled a scheduled Sunday evening talk by Owen Lattimore after the management polled the guests, found that more than half who voted did not want to hear...
...onstage at one point and hustles the old crone off. When two of the orange-housed princesses die of thirst in the desert, the stage audience saves the third by rushing to the rescue with a fire-bucket of water brought in from the wings. Biggest laugh: Basso Richard Wentworth's grotesquely funny dance and aria as the huge, bosomy lady cook from whom the prince steals the three oranges by charming her with a piece of ribbon...
...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 Sam's prototype is not too outlandish an idea. "More than any other commodity," say the authors, "pork implemented American retaliation against [British] tyranny in colonial days, and incidentally initiated the great international commerce that has characterized . . . modern [U.S.] culture." By 1850, "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) had become the greatest pork-packing...
...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 for a bird dog or a child's pony. And he can be housebroken : "By nature he is one of the cleanest of animals...