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MAN DF THE MONTH "The Hardest Trying"
DYNAMIC Harry Darby has spark-plugged production of Kansas City's annual American Royal Livestock and Horse Show for a considerable time now. For many years he served as vice-president of the Royal; and this year in the president's saddle, he promises the biggest and best show ever.
Harry Darby is the man's name. Not Henry T., or Harold W., or even Harry anything. Just plain Harry Darby. It's quick to say and easy to remember, but probably that has nothing to do with the fact it is one of the best-known of midwestern monickers.
The name gained attention first as a student; second as a major and hero of World War I; third as an industrial builder, and prolific producer of combat equipment for the globe's most recent fracas; fourth as a leader in raising, racing, and showing fine horses; and fifth, finally, and foremost as a friend — everybody's friend, everyplace.
To begin way back, Harry Darby captained a field artillery battery in the second battle of the Marne. That was 1918 and he was 23 then, just out of the University of Illinois, where he'd been an honor student, member of Phi Delta Theta, and
president of the student body. He had acquired a wife upon graduation, and his daughter — who was to be the first of several — was born while he was in France.
The battle baptismal came at Chateau Thierry. It was a far cry from the campus, a muddy death-struggle in a tiny town no one had ever heard of. The streets and bridges were paved with the bodies of Marines. Captain Darby's battery was badly mauled, but fought brilliantly throughout the action and on to the Soissons-Rheims line, where the entire German salient was wiped out. Every man remaining received the Croix de Guerre.
Captain Darby was detached then, and sent to the United States for duty as an instructor. However, his war was not over. The ship he was on was torpedoed. Eventually, on another ship, Darby reached the States. Shortly thereafter he was promoted to the rank of major.
The war ended, and Harry Darby returned to Kansas City with his wife and small daughter. He took a job in the Missouri Boiler Works as a mechanic. He worked up to foreman, then to superintendent of the little company with its 20-odd employees. He was a repairman, really, and a