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Sound Sleepers. The Pfizer Co.'s interest in livestock began with the discovery that its antibiotic, terramycin, when mixed with the feed, increases the growth rate of pigs. At first the Pfizer pigmen tried feeding terramycin to the brood sow, in hopes that some of the strengthening drug would filter down in her milk. This proved impractical; it took too much terramycin. Then Pfizer decided to take the piglets away from their mothers at the age of two days and raise them on synthetic sow's milk spiked with terramycin...
...rare and unfortunate bachelor who wrote that paragraph be chained in a dark corner of a men's grill for the rest of his natural eating days. He can brood over his menu, his ulcers, and the coarse behavior of his generation of women. Or maybe he'd prefer to eat words...
...Flannery's mother, an amateur painter, encouraged him to study art. But young Vaughn decided that he wanted to make money. When he had enough of it, he moved his wife and two children to his 307-acre Maryland farm. He runs a profitable "nursery" business, boarding brood mares about to foal. "What's more," says Artist Flannery, "I get all the free models I want...
...biography by Britain's Desmond Young (TIME, Jan. 22) and reflecting Author Young's same reluctant admiration for the enemy, The Desert Fox opens in North Africa with the German disaster at El Alamein. Rommel flies back to Germany to recover from an attack of jaundice and brood on Hitler's failure to keep the Afrika Korps adequately supplied. While in this mood, Rommel is sounded out by one of the ringleaders in a conspiracy against Hitler...
...Kutno, Poland, Sholem Asch used to pester his mother with the question: "Why has God divided mankind into Jew and Gentile?" With a rollicking brood of ten boys and five girls on her hands, Mother Asch had "other things to think about." But the question plagued Sholem Asch, eventually led him to become a religious novelist...