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...fowl is covered with fur, which is very similar to that of a hare, and it eats grain, vegetables and grass. It is especially fond of alfalfa. The eggs that the female fur-fowl lays are soft-shelled like the eggs of a turtle or a snake, but, instead of being round or elliptical in shape, the fur-fowl eggs are hexahedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 15, 1946 | 4/15/1946 | See Source »

...Ocampo salon. At her Mar del Plata villa, brought beam-by-beam from England, or her San Isidro ancestral home where San Martin once plotted Peru's and Chile's liberation, the high talk proceeds preferably in French. "Since infancy," says Victoria, "in the whispering of Argentine alfalfa and wheat I have heard the sound of French verses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Potted Cactus | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

With a dedicated air, rather like the Angel Moroni revealing the Book of Mormon to Joseph Smith, ex-Governor William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 76, has published his Memoirs of Governor Murray and True History of Oklahoma (1,683 pages; weight: six pounds). The title is a generous understatement. The three volumes are not only a history of Oklahoma, but a history of the world (often somewhat original...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fabulous Americana | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...Journal), selling insurance (Mountain States Casualty Co.), the presidency of Rotary International (1932), and administration of New Mexico's relief (1935). He is a gentleman farmer. Three years ago he bought the 935-acre Lazy V Cross ranch, five miles outside Albuquerque. There he has 450 acres of alfalfa, 135 milch cows, and 300 head of Rambouillet sheep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shake-Up! | 6/4/1945 | See Source »

...understand what goes on after 1 a.m.-but I doubt if anything very profound is said." A family man (he has been married twice), he does not smoke, seldom drinks, spends as much time as possible on his Doylestown, Pa. farm, where he grows wheat and alfalfa and raises Aberdeen-Angus cattle. His one eccentricity is that he writes standing up. But even that is based on logic: he paces so much when working that it saves time not to sit down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical In Manhattan, Apr. 30, 1945 | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

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