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...Piece of Equipment." "When a farmer buys a cow," wrote Farm Editor R. J. McGinnis, "he looks at her long and carefully, goes over her point by point, and weighs his pocketbook against her virtues and her faults. He should be no less calculating when he takes a wife . . . This flinthearted approach . . . will appear to many, especially the female sex, as a way of saying that a wife should be regarded as a piece of farm equipment. That is quite right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Best Strain of Wife | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...farmer often uses "very slipshod methods" in selecting a wife. "The eligible-bachelor farmer falls victim of a moonlight night, or a dulcet voice, or a sniff of My Sin, never giving a thought as to whether or not the creature in his arms can strip a cow dry or hoist the back end of a wagon . . . Farmers don't usually fall in love with the deep-bosomed, wide-hipped, somewhat unimaginative women who make the best farm wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Best Strain of Wife | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...witness, prim Marie Natvig. In October Mrs. Natvig held the stand for 13 days, and under questioning by FCC Attorney Walter R. Powell Jr., told luridly and convincingly of meeting "Comrade Lamb" at a Communist Party gathering. The two discussed Communism in a Columbus, O. bistro named the Purple Cow, she swore, and ended the discussion in a hotel room, where she committed her "first act of infidelity." Three months later the grey-haired grandmother recanted. On the stand Mrs. Natvig said that she had been "brainwashed" and forced to lie about Lamb by FCC Lawyer Powell, who threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Lamb Stew | 3/21/1955 | See Source »

...sets and a potent local liquor disarmingly called La Economica. The 4,000 millionaires who set "two Cadillacs in every garage" as their standard enjoy such diverse luxuries as art collections, a drive-in that serves chilled martinis, sports-car racing and a nightclub where a cow does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Skipper of the Dreamboat | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...Cow Catcher: Isolated commercial at the start of a show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Aidma to Zilch | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

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