Word: bulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give stock raisers the benefit of superb sires at low cost, Prentice has a bull donor service. In a pasture, one bull may cover only 20 to 35 cows a year. Prentice divides the semen, thus enables a bull to service up to 20,000 cows. He has one bull that has fathered 118,000 calves. Others long since dead are still siring calves. But he is not stopping there...
...runs his own $2,500,000-a-year engineering firm in Detroit, but he is seldom there. He fishes in Bimini, skis in Norway, once slept with Hillsdale in a Santa Anita stable. His need for guts came early. He was a promising athlete in his youth-a rugged bull of a kid who was forever picking fights with his grade-school classmates, later channeled his energies into football in Massillon, Ohio. His athletic promise faded tragically when, at 15, he came in contact with a high-tension wire. The accident mangled his left hand, severely creased his skull, left...
...spirit was not up to par. College students of the "beat" fifties are not completely satisfied to exuberate wildly for 36 hours, doing nothing but dance ... and drink ... and laugh loudly. Yet this discontent is buried under the revelry and shows itself only on Sunday night during bull sessions over dirty glasses and broken bottles...
...Jones industrials. Rarely in the past 50 years have stocks yielded less than bonds for any length of time except in 1927-29, when the rising stock market kept stock yields under bonds for almost three years. With rising interest rates and the bull market, Wall Streeters see no early reversal in the spread...
Author Ben Hecht, newly mellowed into the meek Wallace of TV interviewing, surrendered to impulse last week. In place of chatting with his usual guest, Hecht wrote a way-gone whimsy. The Three Echoes on a Cloud-a bull session on world problems between Helen of Troy, Empress Josephine and Joe Stalin, perched on adjacent clouds in limbo. Sample thought: "We'll divide this into East Cloudia and West Cloudia." Hecht himself played Stalin in full Red uniform with all the passion of a snowman in Siberia. Next week: Hecht as Casanova...