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...advertising photographs. One drawback: its fragility. Procter & Gamble sends the winning pieces on a year's tour of schools, stores and clubs. Before the tour's end, half the pieces are broken. Too fragile even to set out on this year's tour is a prizewinning cow. She lost her head on her way to the jury, had to be spliced by a soap surgeon before she could compete...
...President called for daylight saving as a national defense measure. A mighty man is Franklin Roosevelt, with many powers unknown to Joshua, but last week he bumped spang up against something Joshua didn't have to contend with: the psyche of the U.S. cow...
Among objections to his proposal that were voiced last week was the assertion that the cow is no dull creature of sodden disposition, but a delicately organized mass of nerves, easily wrought up to the point of not giving down; a sudden upset, such as an hour's change in the milking time, might make a cow tense, thereby impairing the flow of milk necessary for national defense. Cows do indeed take a few days to get used to such a change, but their discomfort is nowhere nearly so great or so enduring as that of farmers. In wintertime...
...details as hooves, eyes, hair and nostrils. But as Aurignacian scratching developed into painting, remarkable sophistication of draftsmanship appeared. In the Montignac group, stiffness of profile has relaxed and action abounds - the beasts run, leap, browse, swim, lie down, chew their cuds. The head of an ancient long-horned cow (see cut) displays an excellent eye and nostril, subtle shading and dappling. To the Paleolithic artist, the more realistic was his picture, the more potent was its magic...
...Others: Yellow Dog Blues, Beale Street Blues, Hooking Cow Blues, Aunt Hagar's Children Blues (all by Handy), Oh Death, Where Is Thy Sting, Pickaninny Rose...