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...farmers call their cows also interests Researcher McDavid. The Scotch Irish, for example, brought along their favorite cow-call, sook, sook, when they came to the U.S. McDavid has traced sook, sook across Pennsylvania to the Alleghenies, then down the Shenandoah Valley as far as Lexington, Va. Many more farmers, especially in New England, prefer co-boss, co-boss...
...Blue Ridge and Great Smoky mountaineers call the parlor the big house and a bull a stock cow...
...studio audience recoiled under a shower of dried beans and pin feathers; then a covey of dead quail and a stuffed cow flopped down onto the stage. There were shotgun blasts, scampering midgets, severed arms, proscenium-climbing cupids and baboons in full cry. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the rowdiest, slap-happiest zanies in show business, had moved into Milton Berle's time spot (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBC TV) with their first television show...
...grew without inhibitions. It was fascinated by space, color, the vehement sermons of real-estate sharks and the horticultural efficacy of powdered cow manure. It developed into a new kind of city-a sprawling confederacy of villages, with five branch city halls and 932 identifiable neighborhoods, in which life is dedicated to the sun, the lawn sprinkler and the backyard grill, and in which the swimming pool is the mark of success and distinction...
...most of the wild animals at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo were killed by their keepers who feared they might escape during air raids. Since then, visitors who daily flock to the zoo have had to content themselves with housecats, hogs, a Jersey cow, stuffed lions & tigers. The government has been deluged with children's pleas that real live wild animals, especially elephants, be restored to the Ueno Zoo, but exchange difficulties have made it practically impossible...