Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adams, last year's champion, won its second straight game, beating Dunster by a score...
Hollywood's champion long-distance emotional gamut-runner, Luise Rainer has a real field day in Dramatic School. Her rich part requires her to twitch out the interpretation of a factory girl so anxious to perfect her histrionic technique that she constantly tells lies so that she will have to practice acting. The part also requires her to run through the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet and declaim about the angel voices, as Joan of Arc. Poor little Paulette Goddard-co-starred presumably as part of the build-up for a forthcoming appearance as Scarlett O'Hara...
Thirty-eight years ago a shy young Creston, Ill. farmer named Stanley R. Pierce took his 1,43O-lb. Aberdeen-Angus steer, Advance, 72 miles to Chicago, to the first International Live Stock Exposition. Advance won the title of Grand Champion Steer. As this year's gaily bedecked, heavily disinfected show opened last week in the brick-&-cement International Amphitheatre at Chicago's Union Stock Yards, Farmer Pierce was again on hand. Watching his best beef cattle collect only three prizes (a 4th, a 5th, a 13th), he mused sadly that Advance had won in "an easy walkaway...
...Aberdeen-Angus. It was called Mercer, was 22 months old, and was owned by Irene Brown, 14, who had bought it last January for $60. Then, on the Exposition's fourth day, British Judge William John Cumber stepped into the arena to judge the show's Grand Champion steer. In the ring were the four finalists-a Hereford and three Aberdeen-Angus, including Mercer, champions of their respective weight classes. Judge Cumber passed his sensitive hands over well-meated sides, carefully examined shoulders and rumps, circled again & again. At last he pointed to Irene Brown's Angus...
Irene Brown was the first girl to own or exhibit a Grand Champion steer, and Judge Cumber called it a wonderful achievement." Said Irene: "I have just one thing to say to the girls ... we can do anything on the farm or in the city that the men can." When her steer, which won about $900 in prize money, was prodded out of the Amphitheatre's doors two days later, it was auctioned off at $3,785-$3.35 for every one of its 1,130 lb., the highest price fetched since 1929. Shortly Mercer will go, as all steers...