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...month had Bull Durham encountered Romance. Then suddenly 35,000 billboards throughout the land proclaimed the news. Advertisements showed a picture of him pasted on the side of a barn. Before the picture, big eyes ogling, tongue hanging out in an expression of lugubrious passion, stood a buxom Holstein cow. This whimsy was captioned "Her Hero." Motorists grinned. Advertising men, seeing in it a burlesque of sex-appealing tobacco advertisements, thought it smart. But to the churchwomen of Willow Glen, a suburb of San Jose, Calif., it was the epitome of bad taste, an affront to California womanhood. Last week...
...Diebitsch Peary, relict of North Pole-discovering Robert Edwin Peary, waved farewell, her daughter, Mrs. Marie Ahnighito ("Snow Baby") Peary Stafford, the latter's sons Peary, 14, and Edward, u, and Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, 56, sailed from Staten Island for Cape York, Greenland. Also aboard were a cow (named Dilwyn Beatrice) and two pigs for Captain Bob's mother at Brigus, Newfoundland. At Cape York the boys will help erect a 60-ft. limestone monument near where their mother was born in 1893, the world's most northerly born white child...
...There's one other thing, since I've come to think Bill was always willing to take a drink. If the job was tough, be it hot or cold, You could get it done if Bill was told. He'd fix the fence, or skin a cow, Or ride a bronc, and EVEN PLOW, Or do anything, if you told him how. Like many men in the oldtime West, On any job, he did his best. He left a blank that's hard to fill For there'll never be another Bill. Both White...
...this was contrary to the announcement, the already existing antagonism of the majority was increased. After an unusually long wait Pickett appeared, but no red shirt, and was greeted mainly by hisses & jeers. He made several futile attempts to connect with the bull, evidently trying to save his handsome cow-pony from being gored, and finally retired from the ring, with pandemonium at his heels. . . . He finally returned and with scarcely any delay rode straight at the bull, who was meeting him half way. In this contact the pony was gored in the chest section and in the encounter Pickett...
...appreciation of art is elementary. Scholars of the American Academy in Rome still remember the occasion two years ago when she paused uncertainly before a stylized picture of a nude Europa balanced on the back of a swimming bull and demanded in her booming voice, "Why is de cow sticking out de tongue?" With her hands folded over her stomach, she moved last week through the four galleries of the U. S. building, gravely inspected one room full of the tenuous, romantic nudes of the late great Arthur B. Davies, stood silent in front of George Wesley Bellows' famed...