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...this week the Dionne quintuplets were three months old. All of them were ready to change their diet from "mother's milk," shipped from Montreal and Toronto, to modified cow's milk. Only Emilie and Marie, the two smallest, remained in incubators. All five totaled 31 Ib. 8-oz., more than three times the 10 Ib. ½-oz. of their first official weight. Almost finished was the special house, opposite the Dionne homestead, in which they will spend their first icy winter as guests of the Canadian Government...
...Lime Rock, Conn., Winslow Wilson painted two moppets called The Mora Children, heard his picture would have the place of honor at the annual art show. Opening day, Painter George Glenn Newell's cow picture Clear and Cold had the best place. Furious, Artist Wilson tore down the cow picture, hung up his own. Hour later the cow picture was back. Portraitist Wilson, with canvas, rushed away, opened a competing one-man one-picture show in an empty 18-room house, challenged Cow Painter Newell to a duel with canvas and brush, promised a $100,000 suit...
...Damon Runyon's fables on the same theme, and although Robert Montgomery makes no effort to control his cuteness, Hide-Out is a likable little picture, full of sweetness, sincerity and scenes which should delight the Legion of Decency. Cleanest shot : Robert Montgomery and Maureen O'Sullivan milking a cow whose udder is offscreen...
...which the speaker may drop an "r" out of one word or the other but seldom both. At the end is added an irrelevant passage which Professor Greet wrote after a trip through Virginia. People from around Richmond may be expected to read it thus: "The cyah frightened the cow in the gyarden. The girls in the haose were scaird. The drivuh of the cyah ahead lost control and destroyed paht of the wall. The fiehce bull chahged with an awful bellah...
...incredibly ornate office, denied himself to practically all callers except his editors. Past 60, of nervous temperament, he lives nearly half the year at his French estate near Biarritz. On his transatlantic trips he customarily takes a large party of relatives, and for the sake of his diet, a cow. The cow makes the round trip but must be sacrificed in sight of her native land because of Argentina's rigid quarantine against all imported cattle. Don Ezequiel sailed for Biarritz last month, regarding the new plant as perhaps the last important milestone in his publishing career. Childless...