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...daughter back to their farm. Pretty Sally Watterson (Irene Dunne) is a great help around the barnyard. It takes her longer than it should to make Peter propose but that is because Peter is a trifle backward. Eventually they marry and plan a house on the hill above the cow pasture. All this, told with a maximum of apple-blossoms, old songs and stringed accompaniments is one portion of High, Wide and Handsome, written and scored by the reliable partnership of Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein...
...regularly. They were advised to swing east because of thick weather but kept on toward California. They almost reached Mexico, turned back north. For four hours no one knew where they were. Finally they found a hole in the fog near San Jacinto, landed skilfully in a cow pasture, handed out cards bearing the words "Eat," "Bath," "Sleep." The Soviet consul arrived, jabbered in hearty Russian to the flyers while they splashed in a shower at March Field. They telephoned the Soviet Embassy in Washington, cabled proudly to Moscow, wolfed a breakfast of ham & eggs, went shopping. They had made...
...veterinarians, sent by the State Department of Agriculture to test them for tuberculosis. The test was simple and harmless : the injection of a small quantity of tuberculin, made from the bacteria of tuberculosis, under the animal's skin. If she had the slightest trace of the disease, the cow would develop fever, and be killed as a menace to other cows and to children who drank her milk. Since the Gibsons neither permitted their cows to herd with other cows nor sold their milk, Lawyer Gibson sturdily stood on his legal right not to have his cows tested...
...child Charlotte meanwhile had taken to running around with a local youth who had taught her to ride horseback. By the time the baffled veterinarians withdrew from the cow pasture, Charlotte Gibson, 23, was going to have a baby. The upright Gibsons decided to shoulder her shame. They had Ridingmaster Sidney Homewood, 24, prosecuted for seducing Charlotte. He "had to be punished so that young girls in the future may be spared a similar fate. One cannot think of one's own humiliation, but of society in general, and the necessity for preserving the beauty and sanctity of love...
Last week Molly Lewis, 15, and her daughter, 7, chewed their cuds as placidly as usual but the rest of the Gibson estate was in commotion. In May the New York Legislature had ordered that every cow in the State, privately milked or not, be tested for tuberculosis. Lawyer Gibson and his wife took lonely counsel with themselves. The Law had them and their cows at bay. Mr. Gibson telephoned for a local veterinarian and one midnight, as the Gibsons sat alone, they heard, from the meadow behind the house, one shot kill Molly Lewis, a second shot kill Sylvia...