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...October). "Some bears turn carnivorous just afore they go into hibernation and go after calves and chickens." says Hulet. "If I know what they're eating, I know where to find 'em." To corner them, Hulet uses half a dozen hounds of his own special mongrel breed: one-quarter pit bull, one-eighth Australian cattle dog, and the remainder Redbone or Walker hound. Explains Hulet: "Thoroughbred hounds don't have the courage that crosses do. The pit bull in 'em makes 'em vicious and tenacious. The cattle dog in 'em gives 'em enough...
...Breed of Reader. Established in 1845 by Rufus Porter, a Yankee tinkerer and jack-of-all-trades, the magazine grew up as a kind of inventor's catalogue, faithfully reporting Morse's telegraph, Catling's gun, and other newfangled devices of the time. Its Manhattan office was a hangout for inventors; among them Thomas A. Edison, who showed up one day in 1877 with a package under one arm that introduced itself: "Good morning. How do you do? How do you like the talking...
...office and a lustrous 102-year-old name. Piel had a theory, and his partners-Dennis Flanagan, also a LIFE editor, and Management Consultant Donald H. Miller Jr.-were willing to test it. In the dawn light of the technological revolution, Piel clearly foresaw the rise of a new breed of technological man. It was his conviction that a magazine beamed at this burgeoning breed would grow right along with...
Buying Without Looking. The situation has given rise to a dangerous new breed of editorial irresponsibility: the purchase of shows sight unseen. Last spring, Packager Don Sharpe sold Mr. Lucky to CBS; at the time he had neither cast nor pilot-only a script that was later discarded. Independents can sucker networks into financing even the shabbiest of productions. NBC spent $1,300,000 to bankroll 26 episodes of a dreary filmed comedy called Love and Marriage, managed to get some of its money back only by plopping the show into a favorable time (Mon., 8-8:30 p.m. E.S.T...
...Money God. Like a singular breed of evil locusts, Flem Snopes and his clan showed up in Mississippi's Yoknapatawpha County at precisely the moment when the old Southern aristocracy had become a pushover for vulgar, illiterate climbers. Flem's god was money, because money was power, and in the end it led even to respectability. To get money, he trampled over the less cunning, blandly jobbed the unsuspecting; he married the casually pregnant daughter of the big man in Frenchman's Bend, and with equal blandness allowed himself to be cuckolded by a banker because...