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...Lake Forest cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay imported from Scotland the first herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus. A few years before, a white-bearded Scottish landowner named William McCombie had, by a process of delicate selectivity, developed the short-legged, short-necked, squat, hornless, sleek-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five Angus cows, and before long other breeders, in Kansas, in Iowa, were adding Anguses to their herds. The blacks began taking prizes, first at local shows, then at the Chicago Fat Show, and then, at the first (1900) International...
TIME, Sept. 10, was evidently caught napping by that astute gentleman, Mr. Franklin Roudybush. . . . Mr. Angus MacDonald Crawford did not start to prepare candidates for the Foreign Service in 1907. Mr. Roudybush was never associated with him as a teacher, and it is very doubtful that "nearly 75 % of U. S. career diplomats" were students of Crawford, much less of Roudybush, as, up to 1919, the former had prepared only 20 candidates...
...Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece for the privilege. His school, now housed in a three-story Georgetown mansion, was founded in an apartment in 1907 by the late Angus MacDonald Crawford with one student. Since then nearly 75% of U. S. career diplomats have "boned" for their examinations with Crawford or Roudybush...
...Century the Picts. shrinking into their lairs from the wind that blows off the Firth of Tay from the North Sea, called the place Kilrymont or Muckross. Later St. Regulus, the Bishop of Patras in Achaea, was guided thither bearing the relics of St. Andrew. Angus. King of the Picts, gave the prelate a duney tract known as the Boar Chase, and the pious Bishop promptly changed its name to St. Andrews. For centuries wind-bitten shepherds had knocked bits of stone about the hummocks with crooked staves in a dour and solitary game called golf, but they...
...Wharfedale Deliverance, beaten at last by his own daughters, showed his remote Chinese ancestry in pink marble, turned-up snout, stiff-flaring ears. There were conventional models of the famed racehorses Polymelus, Sergeant Murphy, Easter Hero, a polo pony, a Percheron mare and foal, a sleek black marble Aberdeen Angus bull, a cow, a ewe, a sow. Of each British champion Sculptor Haseltine had made exactly twelve small copies which sold for $450 to $1,700 each...