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...Santa Fe, an ad for a new cow-scratching device in the New Mexico Stockman caught Al Rosenfeld's eye and turned into an item for the BUSINESS section (TIME, April 9). A full-page treatment of a cowboy camp meeting in the RELIGION section (TIME, July 30) started with a casual remark made while Rosenfeld was interviewing an artist. San Francisco Correspondent Serrell Hillman was covering a professional women's golf tournament at Carmel, Calif, when a friend mentioned the Army language school at Monterey, which was covered in TIME'S EDUCATION section (TIME, July...
...Agriculture was planning a dirty trick on an unpleasant insect: the screwworm fly of Texas and Florida. The female flies lay their eggs in open wounds (even scratches or tick bites) in the hides of cattle. From each clutch hatch about 200 maggots, which eat a hole in a cow as big as a lemon. Often other flies attack the same wound. Unless an outside agency (i.e., a cowpoke with anti-fly dressings) comes to the cow's rescue, she may be eaten alive...
Trail Driving Days, by Dee Brown and Martin F. Schmitt. A first-class roundup of cow-country legends, thickly illustrated (TIME...
Over the dusty cow town, silence hangs heavy as doom. The womenfolk, both spangled and respectable, huddle helplessly on stairways and behind shuttered windows. Tense and motionless at the long bar stands a frieze of deputies and desperadoes. Even the bearded comic for once is solemn and wary. For this is the moment when virtue - lean, clean, manly, and quick on the draw - must face evil in single combat, to triumph or bite the dust...
Grand Right and Left, by Louis Kronenberger. A deftly witty farce about the richest man in the world and his compulsions as a collector (TIME, Feb. 25). Trail Driving Days, by Dee Brown and Martin F. Schmitt. A first-class roundup of cow-country legends, thickly illustrated (TIME, Feb. 18). The Duke of Gallodoro, by Aubrey Menen. Light sardonics about a reprobate Englishman, his sleepy Italian town, and the Mediterranean way of life (TIME...