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...years. But Turkey was up for re-election ("Let's have Turkey in November"). He had nothing against the hound-dog boys personally, but the farmers had the votes. Turkey had read about a man in Brownwood named Adam L. Lindsey, who could call foxes with a cow horn. He sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Call of the Wild | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Lindsey's gadget was a thin metal shim vibrating against a metal plate set in a cow horn. It made a noise like a baby strangling and, Lindsey boasted, it would call any flesh-eating varmint-hawks, owls, coons, wolves or foxes. "They think it's a hurt rabbit," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: The Call of the Wild | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

...farm shows important progress against two of India's biggest problems: malnutrition, and the misuse of its tremendous cattle population, the world's biggest. Says Khurody: "I want to make this a sort of Mecca to which pilgrims can come from all over India to learn about cow culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mecca of the Sacred Cow | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Tengo una vaca lechera No es una vaca cualquiera, Tolon, tolon, talon, tolon. (I have a milk cow, She is no common cow . . . Clang, clang, clang, clang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Musical Landlord | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Said Don Francisco: "It's a good thing there are laws for everybody in Spain. This one is for me." The policemen good-naturedly dispersed the crowd, and walked off singing, "I have a milk cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Musical Landlord | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

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