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turning its attention to agricultural equipment and farm implements for the West and Southwest. This is an expression of one of Harry Darby's favorite bits of economic philosophy, which runs: "Kansas City has too long been a back door to the East. Its future growth and development lie in the fact that it is now the front door to the West."
The "know'how" with new metals is still evident. Only recently, Mr. Darby was handed contracts for three one million dollar metal towers to be used in the manufacture of granulated soap. There wasn't even the formality of requesting bids. A soap executive explained this by saying: "Harry's got the only outfit in the country that can do the job. One tower goes in New Jersey, one in Indiana, and one in Kansas. His roving field crews can get them up with a minimum expenditure of time and money."
Mr. Darby and his wife, Edith, have now increased the number of their daughters to four. Two of the girls are married, and both their husbands were in the Navy.
Horses are Harry Darby's hobby. On his farms in Southern Missouri and Edwardsville, Kansas, he has more than a hundred of them. For a time he bred race horses, but he foreswore it because a number of his friends were kept broke betting on them out of loyalty. Now he raises show horses, hunters, and cow ponies. One friend remarked: "Harry gave up slow horses for show horses. Now I can eat!"
The appeal of the West is strong in Harry. He raises white-faced Here
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fords and markets a lot of products under the "Cowboy Brand" trademark. He's active in Kansas City's Saddle and Sirloin Club, and considers organizing a similar group in Platte County, — to be called "Saddle and Sore Loin."
What Harry Darby has most of is friends. He's sincere, plain-spoken, a two-fisted guy with a drink. When he grabs your hand you know you've got hold of something. He looks right at you; says what's on his mind; and five-gets-you-ten he remembers your name next time around, even if it's three years from now.
His name mnemonics come in handy, politically. He knows by name thousands of midwesterners and hundreds of New Yorkers and Washingtonians and Mexicans and Canadians. For years past counting he's been Republican National Committeeman from Kansas, and rumor has it he has more than once been unofficially offered the national chairmanship. He was Kansas State Highway Director for four years under Alf Landon.
Harry is a Kansan, by birth and by preference. The boundary line dividing Kansas City rankles some of his associates, but for him it doesn't exist. His home and his office are on the Kansas Side, but his clubs and many of his activities are in Missouri. He participates in everything concerning Greater Kansas City, and think,= no more about it.
Right now Harry Darby is concerned with the 1946 American Royal. He says it's going to be the finest yet. And if you don't believe that, then you don't know Harry!