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Jack Hoffman, a farm boy from Ida Grove, Iowa, bought a calf last year for $50. To feed his calf, a purebred white-faced Hereford named T. O. Pride, he paid out another...
...Preceded by the enormous Cossacks of the Imperial Guard . . . [Tsar Alexander I] rode slowly through the streets. In gaping astonishment the citizens of Paris gazed upon their conqueror. His enormous feet were thrust into stirrups of wrought gold . . . above the gold collar . . . they saw the face of a benignant calf...
Born in Birkenhead, England, Powell Davies spent a robust youth on his father's farm (he rode a bull calf at the age of two, wore out five motorcycles). He almost went into British politics, finally decided that "the crucial field was an honest, believable religion," was graduated from London University's Richmond College of Divinity in 1925. For three years he was a Methodist minister in London, then left for the U.S. and two consecutive pastorates in Maine...
...Atlantic City judges after a close study of the innate and acquired talents of 16 vaselike finalists, was that fair-skinned, blue-eyed brunette, the 123-lb. one with the 25½-in. waist, 35½-in. bust, 36-in. hips, 22½-in. thigh, 13½-in. calf, and 8½-in. ankle -that 21-year-old one from California, name of Marilyn Buferd. "Oh my God," said Miss Buferd, "I never expected it." New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson immediately interviewed her. Had she any foibles? "Pardon me," retorted Miss Buferd icily, "I don't understand...
First they bred a buffalo bull with a domestic cow, found that the calf's disproportionately big head and shoulders Killed three out of four cows at birth. Then they crossed domestic bulls with buffalo cows, and normal births ensued. But there was one drawback: the first hybrids were sterile. Nevertheless the breeders persisted...