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...Book Three the idiot Ike Snopes falls in love with a cow. Mink Snopes murders a widower named Houston. The villagers, to cure the idiot of "stock-diddling," slaughter the cow and require him to eat of her. In a gruesome scene Houston's hound attacks Mink. Mink is caught and jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius- | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch" (down which has poured millions in gold). What of it? Main streets must run somewhere. It may be a bit winding; but doesn't Boston have a street or streets said to have been laid out by a trail-blazing cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...throughout the country: a Delaware seaport changed its name to Odessa in the hope of bolstering its trade (and promptly became a ghost town). Last week in Moscow, Idaho, seat of the State University, proposals for a new name included: 1) Borah, 2) Tat-Kin-Mah, 3) Paradise, 4) Cow. Meantime Mayor Henry Hansen sent off $176.46 for Finnish Relief, wrote that Moscow citizens wanted Finns to know that not all Muscovites were against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Name | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Kingstree, S. C., Farmer H. R. Morris found a lost cow which had swished its tail around a tree, knotted itself fast, slowly starved to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...over the papers last week. Reason: he had just told chemists about his new, cheap, artificial production of three powerful sex hormones (testosterone, progesterone and desoxy-corticosterone), from sarsaparilla root compounds. A boon to doctors, Professor Marker's synthetic hormones will cost far less than natural sheep and cow products. Professor Marker warned Penn State's publicity department to warn the press not to sensationalize his sarsaparilla. Worried Penn State promptly sent out the following "confidential" release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Sarsaparilla Caution | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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