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...test a radio homing compass in her capacity as $1-a-year employe of the Department of Commerce. Over the State of Hidalgo both radio and compass went sour, a bug flew into her eye and she lost her bearings. Thereupon Flyer Putnam "sat down" in a cow pasture, learned that she was 60 miles from her goal...
Members of the Harvard archaeological expedition to Egypt headed by Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, are reported to be working on the site of ancient turquoise mines at Serabit which has long been famous for its ruined temple of the goddess Hather. She is usually represented with cow's horns and wearing a moon-shaped disc...
...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
...year, unionized his plant, boasted he had fought the ''tobacco trust" and never been beaten. His company's net sales were $23,704,029 in 1933, $28,551,842 last year. He raised blooded stock, owned Betsy Hopeful, "the $42,500 wonder cow," and Hank MacTavish, a gelding he nominated for this year's Kentucky Derby...
...Conservatism has too long been the sacred cow of the campus," proclaims the "Record." ". . . an emphatic farewell to political conservatism," shouted the Yale "News" only two months ago. These statements are actually pictures of the new trend in undergraduate journalism. They are pictures which cannot but call a word of approval from all papers which have long struggled for a vigorous, opinionated expression of the new student thought...