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Mama began taking Pat to church when he was six weeks old, later gave him a daily cross: milking the family cow. At first, chasing Rosemary across plusher neighbors' lawns was an excruciating embarrassment. But Pat soon learned "that people were not as interested in what I had or what I wore as in what I was . . . It healed me of a lot of insecurity to find out that if my cow gave people a laugh, I was doing them a favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Teen Commandments | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...hood, hammering on the windshield with his shoe. A large stone cracked the glass after the boy was pulled off. Again the car sliced through the crowd, was nearly cut off by a herd of cattle but, after colliding heavily with a cow, slipped past. All along the route to the embassy it was met by a barrage of mud, stones and assorted filth. Further back waved crudely lettered signs: "Go home, little dog Rountree." "Rontry, do not step on our beloved land with your bloody feet!" Waiting at the embassy gate was a truckload of mobsters chanting, "Go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Top U.S. Envoy Hunted through Baghdad Streets | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...spoof people, Bil has generally used animals: a gossipy hen (Hedda Louella McBrood), a bulldog TV interviewer (Mike Malice), a cow fan dancer (Dorothy LaMoo). He also has a mournful hound-dog named Edward R. Bow-Wow, who delivers historical newscasts over See It Now-Wow. But if TV is willing, Baird proposes something grander: serious news shows using puppets (Khrushchev, Dulles, et al.), with graphic, moving geopolitical maps. "Nothing to it," says Puppeteer Baird. "In this art, the whole world is at your fingertips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Bairds on the Wing | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). A rerun of last year's success, Trail to Christmas. Jimmy Stewart manages to take Scrooge, Cratchit and Marley's ghost to the U.S. cow towns of the 1870s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 22, 1958 | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

When Chuck Wood Jr., 17, first caught sight of the Aberdeen-Angus calf on his father's Iowa farm 14 months ago, his practiced eye told him it had the build of a potential champ. He exclaimed "Holy cow!" The calf, duly named Holy Cow, was given to Wood to care for. Last week, Holy Cow, grown to a 925-lb. steer, won the grand championship in the Chicago International Livestock Exposition. Wood collected $1,010 in prize money, plus $23,125 from Restaurant Owner Howard Johnson Jr. who bought the steer at auction and will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Holy $24,135 Cow | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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