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...weeks ago big Manhattan department stores like Gimbel's, Bloomingdale's and Wanamaker's began demonstrating a hammered metal gadget with a long handle called the "aluminum cow." While housewives gathered around the kitchenware counter, salesmen fiddled with its bolts, jiggled its handle, pumped out thick yellow whipping cream. By last week 250 housewives had paid $4.95 apiece for the machine at Gimbel's, and Bloomingdale's and Wanamaker's had sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cream Machine | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...them. His three ace rushers are Captain Pug Lund, who was playing his final game in the home stadium last week; Julius Alfonse, who has averaged 10 yd. every time he has been given the ball this season; and the hero of Minnesota's "Hook 'Em Cow" club, Fullback Stanislaus Clarence ("Stockyard Stan") Kostka...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 26, 1934 | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

...Hook 'Em Cows" are affluent, football-mad livestock commission merchants and packers of the Twin Cities. Since Stan Kostka comes from a little farm near South St. Paul, the stockyard centre of Minnesota, and has two brothers working in the stockyards, he has a natural claim to "Hook 'Em Cow" loyalty. He scored none of Minnesota's five touchdowns against Chicago last week, but his runs, swift and swaying like a cowboy, and his bowling-ball interference helped make them possible. Although he has not been a full-time player, in the first six games...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Nov. 26, 1934 | 11/26/1934 | See Source »

Francis Lederer and Joan Bennett by the leading bundlers in this intelligent sparkling comedy that pokes fun at No England's blue laws of Revolutionary days. Leaderer, a violin-playing Hessics soldier deserts the English forces and turns up in Miss Bennett's barn milking a cow. He is taken a prisoner of war, but this hinders him very little first gazing soulfully into Jean's eyes or from playing the piano and singing romantic songs to her, or indeed from leaving the confinement one wintry night and bundling with her in the parlor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT THE MET | 11/19/1934 | See Source »

From this you will see that the vision of me hanging around a barnyard with a bucket in my hand waiting for some old dairy cow to drop a calf is rather ridiculous. Certainly there is nothing in such a picture to impress one with the purity of our product or the desirability of taking such a mess into one's peritoneal cavity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 12, 1934 | 11/12/1934 | See Source »

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