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Though they are a vanishing breed, there are still those around here who pitch pennies in the spring, walk through puddles instead of around them, and go to film adaptations of Rudyard Kipling. They will enjoy "Kim" tremendously...
...project this policy into other fields. Once a Harvard man has been taught to make his own bed it's a short step to teach him to vacuum the rugs and sweep the corriders. The result inevitably will be a rush of girls to marry Harvard men, a new breed of intellectuals not only ornamental to the drawing room but gosh-darned handy at helping with the housework. --from the Logan (Utah) Herald-Journal, November...
College football tends to breed a nasty atmosphere of suspicion. Athletic scholarships and competitive recruiting exist; the colleges know this and so do their alumni. But the conflict between the standards people would like to see applied to athletics and actual standards makes for a narrowing of the eyes and a quick search between the lines when a school changes its athletic or admissions policy. There were many people squinting between the lines at the College during the vacation...
Lecturing in Manhattan, British Philosopher and Nobel Prizewinner Bertrand Russell predicted a future genetics contest between Russia and the U.S. "to breed a race stronger, more intelligent, and more resistant to disease than any race of man that has hitherto existed...
Cattleman Robert Justus Kleberg Jr., boss of Texas' 920,000 acre King Ranch, is proudest of his development of the Santa Gertrudis breed,* the hardiest and heaviest all-grass-fed cattle in the U.S. (TIME, Dec. 15, 1947). Kleberg always kept most of his prize Santa Gertrudis bulls for the King Ranch, but other cattlemen sought them so avidly that each year he obligingly sold a few, at a standard price of $350. The waiting list grew so big that Bob Kleberg (rhymes with hay-burg) decided to try an experiment...