Publisher's Letter, Oct. 24, 1955

Dear TIME-Reader:

This week's cover story on an extraordinary farm lad is in large part the work of another farm lad not so many years senior to Star Farmer Joe Moore. The assignment of T. George Harris to the story of the 21-year-old winner of the Future Farmers of America award was a natural.

Harris, 31, was recently named to head our Chicago Bureau. The dozen years prior to that he had devoted in about equal measure to the university, the Army and journalism. And behind that was the land.

George Harris grew up on a 280-acre farm in Todd County, Ky., 100...

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