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Still treating rumors of her marriage to air-minded Conductor Andre Kostelanetz as a big joke. Diva Lily Poas avowed: "In five years I quit the stage. I quit my music so I can plant my garden, so I can milk the cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...habit of saying 'Good show' when he means 'How nice,' or whether the unbuttoned half-Dutch ex-farmer from Africa will turn up, liable to be reminded, by the look of the fat lady on his left, of a post mortem he did on a cow." Matter-of-fact, 40-year-old, amiably bi-natured. Novelist Cloete has been both. Enlisting in 1915 in the Guards, he was wounded at the Somme so badly that he was invalided out of further service, went down to South Africa (which one branch of his family had helped settle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Voortrekkers | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...writer is a subscriber to TIME and LIFE magazines. The former recently carried a picture of a Holstein cow family consisting of mother and six calves [TIME, Sept. 27] and certain comments, associated therewith, on the female sterility of mixed sex dual births, prompt me to suggest that TIME'S Letters column put out a feeler for more extensive and confirming information on this biological fact or canard, whichever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...dairy breeds do not make first-class beef, hence, a breeder or raiser of dairy cattle would send his heifer calf to the butcher for veal at eight weeks, if he knew she would not breed, produce a calf and become a milch cow later-rather than feed the calf for twelve to 18 months, find she could not be gotten with calf, and then had to go to the butcher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 1, 1937 | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Pope, special tax investigator. Opening blast in the current squabble between Boss and Governor was fired by Boss Crump. Said he when he first heard about the unit plan: "The Sneak has the insane desire to go to the United States Senate. He would milk his neighbor's cow through a crack in the fence to accomplish that purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESSEE: Crimp in Crump | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

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