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...similar performance by a second $50,000 bull, T. T. Triumphant 29th, was canceled at the last minute. T. T. Triumphant was indisposed, stayed behind at his veterinarian's orders. But a prize calf, sent as a substitute, plodded up the red rug as his representative...
...G.I.s take care of their feet, even in battle. Men are learning to dry their socks on bushes or in their jackets or helmets. In some forward areas, dry socks are issued along with rations. Now improved boots are on the way. They are the Quartermaster Corps' new calf-high shoe-pacs, synthetic rubber up to normal shoe height and leather the rest of the way, designed to be worn with two pairs of heavy socks. Production began in August and a few shoe-pacs have already been issued to the troops fighting under the worst conditions...
Their first big success came in 1940, when they operated on a 16-year-old boy with a weak, wasted lower leg and foot. Through an incision in the calf, they crushed the nerve above the point where it was damaged. Two months later, motion and feeling began to return to the foot. Eventually the boy regained full power in all the affected muscles and his treated leg again measured the same as the other...
Holy Cow. In Detroit, Fred Howe, charged with violating a city ordinance by bringing cattle into the city in mixed lots (two cows and a small calf), got the case dismissed when he explained that the calf was an act of God en route...
...chiseled face of an American Indian. He wore boots and a simple grey-green uniform. Only the golden laurel leaves at his lapels and cuffs indicated the Supreme Commander of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia. At his feet lay Tiger, a German police dog the size of a calf...