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...COCK OF HEAVEN-Elder Olson -Macmillan...
There are 1,500,000 archery addicts in the U. S. Most of these toxophilites are content with target shooting or flight shooting (for distance). But some 15,000 are Cock Robin killers: they want to kill something with their bows & arrows...
...Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo of Mississippi, a chunky fighting cock who campaigns in a red necktie tastefully embellished with a diamond horseshoe stickpin, is probably the most indestructible man in U. S. politics. For one thing, he has been in jail (in 1923, for refusing to testify at the trial for seduction of his hand-picked successor as Governor). In 1932, when he finished his second gubernatorial term, which had been enlivened by an episode in the Governor's office involving a blonde and a pistol shot, he and Mississippi were both practically bankrupt. Shelved in Washington...
...prepare a glue, the scientists withdrew blood from an artery of a young cock, spun it in a centrifuge. The heavy red blood cells were thrown away and the clear plasma packed on ice where it stayed fresh for six weeks. Into the plasma the experimenters poured a few drops of chicken embryo extract, "a powerful clotting agent...
...Christianity and Buddhism, on such problems as the possibility of an animal's attaining Buddhahood without first passing through the human phase. From them he learned, and through them he was profoundly drawn toward that subtle, serenely intricate theology which traces all evil to the pig (Ignorance), the cock (Ego, Desire), the serpent (Anger); which insists: ""The cruelty of the tyrant is as worthy of pity as the groans of the slave...