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...disappeared behind a grey overcast, and a great stillness fell over the eastern Colorado plains. After that a freezing wind rose, banged barn doors and snatched at the smoke from lonely ranch houses. It grew dark, and salt-like snow began hissing across leagues of sere buffalo grass. Then, for 48 hours, a blizzard-the worst in 33 years-moaned down out of Wyoming with nothing to stop it but fence posts and cottonwood trees...
...patently too late to repair the damage that has been done--the horse is long gone from the barn. But it is not too late to insure that such a situation never again arises at Harvard. Whether it is salutary or not, football at Harvard, as throughout the nation, stands on the threshold of its greatest era. But if football at Harvard is to be big time, then the H.A.A. must sweep off the cobwebs and emerge from the nineteenth century...
After a pampered passage from India, four "Red Sindhi" cattle-two bulls, two cows-chewed their cuds last week in a New Jersey cow barn. They were the first Indian cattle to enter the U.S. since 1924. When sufficiently rested from a plane-ship-plane journey, they would start a major breeding project: begetting cows to bulge with milk on the humid, hot Gulf Coast...
Groucho is first-rate. From his opening lines as a stowaway in a barrel in the hold of the ship, to his concluding monologue announcing a fight from the ceiling of a barn, he works furiously every minute. Most of his action is ad-lib, and his Perelmanesque lines are sharp. Commenting on a remark by someone, he says: "Gee, I wish I'd said that. Everyone's repeating it around the club these days...
...Seat. In Munnsville, N.Y., Farmer Wesley Bolin slid down a rope from a hayloft, set off matches in his pocket, watched his barn burn to the ground...