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...Derek Bond and Paul Rogers); on the other looms the hypnotic Svengali (oldtime Shakespearean Actor Donald Wolfit). who drifts about the screen in tattered clothes, rather like a grounded crow. In between is Hildegarde Neff, who makes Trilby, the Irish artist's model, exactly the "great, beautiful, stupid cow" of a woman that Du Maurier intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Some 600 annual rodeos and horse shows pull in crowds from Madison Square Gar den to San Francisco's Cow Palace, to display the best in riders and animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: IN THE SADDLE | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

...idiot boy Bub Quigley frightens and revolts Amy with his drooling and twig-chewing. In a sudden funk over the death of a cow, Amy herself races crazily through the bush one night and has a miscarriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Australian with a Hoe | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

There was never a cow in all Normandy, or for that matter in all of France, that was so celebrated as Marie II. Dappled brown and white and the picture of contentment, Marie poured out milk so plentiful and creamy that she won blue ribbons by the score and, on one occasion, was bussed on both brown cheeks by President Coty of France. Cattle connoisseurs paid millions of francs for Marie's offspring, and Marie repaid their confidence. She broke the world record last year by producing a phenomenal 24,967 Ibs. in 330 days-enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sour Cream | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...cadets now beginning their training at the U.S. Air Force Academy gone to West Point, they would have found themselves confronted by a bewildering type of catechism. In the Hell on the Hudson, the new plebes would have had to answer questions such as: "How is the cow?" (Answer: "Sir, she walks, she talks, she's full of chalk; the lacteal fluid extracted from the female of the bovine species is highly prolific to the nth degree.") And if they were asked: "What do plebes rank?", they would of course have replied: "Sir, the Superintendent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tradition in 90 Days | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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