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Island Rescue (J. Arthur Rank; Universal-International) has a real Venus for its leading lady. She is a goddess among cows, a triumph of scientific breeding, and she lives on the Channel island of Armorel. Since Venus is in calf by champion bull Mars of Mellowbury III, the expected progeny is of vital concern to the British Ministry of Agriculture...
...striking exhibit for a 19-year-old. Paolo's muscular sketches showed a smooth, well-developed style and a precise eye for detail. His best were natural subjects he saw at the zoo or the family farm: a furry, tongue-flicking anteater, a nursing calf, a spiny crawfish. In others, he had let his imagination roam, turned out such things as a ferocious sparrow, as seen from the eye of its prey, a beetle, a fantastic, cross-eyed cat, a panorama called Ancient Hunt, showing naked horsemen chasing terrified animals. His sponsors reported that 85,000 people have stopped...
...Tunis. Only last month, said a French delegate, he had been asked to treat a bull suffering from "a hopeless case of sterility." After the bull got the needles, he went charging off in pursuit of four cows. And, said the puncturist, two of the cows are already in calf. A Tunisian specialist reported the case of a man, aged 30, suffering from depression, pains in the legs and sexual debility. He got one gold needle in the left chest (at point chungju) and in the back (at kaopang), and half an hour later headed home to his harem with...
...this, the ox only produces one calf a year and seldom more than three in a lifetime, and will not be a common sight in Vermont for some time. This is probably just as well. The musk ox, which likes to lick lichen from snow-covered rocks, should react well to New England grazing. But it is a little harder to tell just how New England will react to the musk...
...photograph of "Pat McCormick making the kill" of a poor little scrubby calf is ludicrous and disgusting . . . A wholesome girl from one of Texas' Four-H Clubs would have been prompted to pick up the calf, place it on the spectators' side of the barrier, then give it a good feed...