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...University of Illinois mounts and catalogs all TIME covers as part of its permanent collection. A loyal son of Texas has a standing order for the artists' originals of all Texans appearing on the cover. They are hung in a Texas museum. Originally, this art buyer (an ex-cattleman) wanted to know what longevity guarantee we would give him with each painting. Artzybasheff said he would be happy to guarantee his to last for about 500 years...
...there were still plenty of Democratic celebrants. Ol' Gene Talmadge was back in the saddle in Georgia. Big Jim Folsom took over in Alabama. Cattleman Roy Turner won in Oklahoma and Publisher-Banker William P. Lane in Maryland. The biggest surprise victor was Colorado's twangy Chief Justice William Lee Knous, who ousted a do-nothing Republican administration...
Before the Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee appeared Cattleman W. D. Farr of Greeley, Colo. Disdainful of OPA penalties which make a violator liable to fines three times his total overcharge. Farr admitted that feeders sold above OPA prices: "Almost all the cattle arriving at the market at the present time are selling above the compliance range. If we were not able to get this black-market price we would be losing $5 to $10 per head on every animal we are feeding...
...tireless competition between Hereford and Aberdeen Angus men, the new $51,000 record may not last long. But many a cattleman thinks that such fantastic prices, even in boom times, are dangerous risks. A good bull can pay for himself in breeding fees in a few months, but a bad one cannot. Two years ago a bull named T. Royal Rupert 99th sold for a world record $38,000. Cattlemen soon dubbed him "Reluctant Rupert." He has shown absolutely no interest in cows...
Even for Texas a woman like Clara Driscoll was something. She came from tiny St. Mary's, on the Gulf Coast, and when she was born (in 1881) many an aging Texan still remembered the Alamo. Her father, Cattleman Bob Driscoll, was just beginning to compound his $10 million empire out of equal parts of land and oil and trail-driven herds...