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...When fire broke out in the King Ranch stable at Saratoga race track, 14 thoroughbreds were turned loose. But Here and There, a three-year-old filly that had come up from dead last to win the Alabama Stakes that same afternoon, bolted, crashed back into the barn, was burned to death...
...Pentwater, Mich., Dairyman Claire W. Nelson explained that he let the radio blare women's screams gunshots and rock 'n' roll at his cows all day so that when "a stranger comes into the barn they aren't upset, because they've heard everything...
...artists' colony of Woodstock, N.Y. last week, Hudson River valley antique dealers staged their annual fair of prize finds. The setting was itself an antique: a 60-ft.-long barn dating back to the middle of the 19th century. More than 1,000 people a day jammed the four-day exhibition, which comprised some 2,000 items, ranging from buttons to bureaus. The ladies who put the show together were mostly grandmothers, but they smilingly shifted furniture that would have given a stevedore pause. As each unveiled her best discoveries, the others clustered like birds. A Civil War soldier...
...bought cows and established a successful dairy farm, bought and successfully operated a sawmill. He and his wife milk the .cows (by machine), manage the sawmill, shepherd the tourists and keep digging at the mountain. At times they startle visitors by coming in from work in mountain-and-barn clothes and appearing for dinner a few minutes later in formal dress...
Comes a storm. Landslides block the road. Bridges wash out. The bus stops dead in a pothole. The driver and the daughter end up in a barn. But at the catchall conclusion the driver goes back to his wife, the daughter marries a basketball coach, and the salesman wins the blonde to wife by promising her a stove that plays Tenderly when the steak is done. And Jayne Mansfield looks dumb enough to believe...