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...type no doubt help to give cats a good name. Other case histories, less authoritative, are also less impressive. A good example is that of the cat who, observing that some starlings nervously avoided him but were unperturbed by cattle, rode into action crouched on the back of a cow. To the same category belongs the cat who specialized in rabbiting and who one day caught a black one. This, according to the story, he hastily brought home to his mistress, "clearly recognizing it was an unusual specimen"-and also hoping, no doubt, add the Lockridges, "that [she] would have...
...Furies (Paramount) is a pretentious exercise in Freudian dramatics, set in the New Mexico cow country of 1870. Its main characters, driven by vengeance and greed, wear their passions as openly as their six-shooters. And they switch from hate to love, and from love to hate, as readily as they shift from a canter to a trot...
Gratwicke Beatrice II, a roan dairy shorthorn cow belonging to Winston Churchill, won first prize (?10) at the Kent county agricultural show. Later in the week Winnie proved his luck again when the express train he was riding in plowed into a loaded hay elevator at 76 m.p.h., gave him and the other passengers only a momentary jolt...
...Edward Babcock, 61, farm-born Cornell farm economist; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. He argued that the U.S. farm economy would be bolstered, and U.S. health improved, if farmers would raise more livestock and consumers would eat more livestock products, devised a calf-faced, rooster-crested turkey-winged cow-pig-sheep, the "Unimal" (TIME, June 19), as a symbol of his program...
Levitt & Sons' President William J. Levitt describes the product simply as "the best house in the U.S." Coming from Bill Levitt, that exaggeration is natural, and pardonable. At 43, the leader of the U.S. housing revolution is a cocky, rambunctious hustler with brown hair, cow-sad eyes, a hoarse voice (from smoking three packs of cigarettes a day), and a liking for hyperbole that causes him to describe his height (5 ft. 8 in.) as "nearly six feet" and his company as the "General Motors of the housing industry...