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...Paris. He worked the rich soil on which he was born 63 years ago, hid what little money he possessed under his mattress, and left the farm only rarely, to stand in silence while his ruddy-cheeked wife Louise haggled with some neighbor over the sale of a family calf. Pierre's distrust of the outside world was in no way softened when, three years ago, his half-witted daughter Marie-Helene went to a dance in the nearby village and got herself with child. "L'idiote," the neighbors used to cry as Marie walked her fatherless baby...
...Worthless Calf. The Texas wheat crop this year is expected to be about one-third of normal, the cotton crop one-half. Hardest hit of all are the cattle ranchers. Their ranges are burned up, their ponds and wells are going dry; most of the cattle they have left stand forlornly in the baking fields, ribs pressing against their skin...
...week choice calves brought 16? a Ib. in Dallas (compared to 30? a year ago), and some cows sold for as little as 5? a Ib. (the alltime low in the great depression: 3?). Said Cleve Littlepage, a Tahoma, Texas rancher one day last week: "I had a little calf born on my place this morning. A month ago that calf would have been worth $35. maybe $40. I've offered it to ten men free and they all turned it down...
...Janesville, Wis. last week, an unusual calf was born on the farm of John and Melford Hill. It was the first calf in the U.S. to be sired by bull semen that had been kept frozen at -110° F. The Wisconsin Scientific Breeding Institute, which supervised the affair, believes that frozen semen will start a kind of revolution in the cattle-breeding business...
...composed the music for the film, has clothed his theme in vivid imagery. The picture is one long, visual lament, beginning and ending in the mountains among the crosses of Allied soldiers who died fighting in Italy. The images of death are everywhere: in the head of a butchered calf, in skeletons in glass-walled burial crypts, in the traditional Game of the Cross, with its procession of masked and black-robed figures. Malaparte uses sounds as freshly as sights: dramatically, the funereal, off-screen beating of drums dominates an entire dialogue sequence...