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...enough. We'll just have to stop giving you money." Replied Joe: "If you do, I'll keep right on sucking my thumb." And so he did, until he was in the second grade and decided that he wanted more than anything on earth a Jersey cow that had been offered to his father as payment for a debt. When Joe pleaded to have the cow, his father said: "You can have her if you quit sucking your thumb. None of us must ever see you with your thumb in your mouth again." No one ever...
Instead, he crusaded for One World, which he claimed to have conceived before Willkie, came to the U.S. to lecture on world government. He also gave a lot of thought to the cow. "Mankind cannot exist with out the abolition of cow slaughter," he proclaimed and founded the Cow Protection League...
...whirling panorama of slant hatted insurance salesmen, cow-like women, bull-like men, and smiling madmen, Harington weaves a crazy pattern of the present. His starting thread is Hal Hingham, an agent of Arcadia Life, afraid of sales prospects, and frightened of his bulbous, seductive landiady. The image of Hingham the failure is obvious: "The broken, abandoned pencil-sharpener had depressed him. It reminded him of himself. People didn't care how they treated mass-produced equipment." He was a nobody in world that seemed complex and cruel. Even at childhood his father appeared one day only long enough...
Walsh, formerly associated with the Cow Palace, a sports arena in San Francisco, has traveled through the Soviet Union, observing the different teams in action. He secured the Russian Sports Federation agreement to send over it top team...
...they posed together for news photographers at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit, it was not easy to tell who looked prouder, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson or Windrow Helene, his prize four-year-old cow. Windrow Helene, who produced 10,658 Ibs. (4,956 qts.) of milk in 305 days, was crowned grand champion female of the Ayrshire breed...