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Other Terpilici comrades said that 40 of the 89 lost cows had been found, the rest having doubtless been eaten or sold. Scathingly the weekly Ekonomicheskaya Zhizn cartooned a man with a lantern "searching for an honest cow" and asking of one startled, guilty-looking beast: "Pardon me, but aren't you one of Terpilici State Farm's cows...
Across the border, Polish Jokesmiths joined the fun. A story circulated about one Wieslaw Hawrylowicz who escaped from Russia disguised as a cow. "Would you believe it! He sewed himself up in a real cow's skin and hobbled over the frontier on all fours in full view of Red guards so dumb they never knew the difference...
...still enough left to keep auctioneers busy for six days last week. All Miss Giulia's jewelry was sold with the rest. Besides her famed four-strand pearl necklace and her 25-carat Ceylon sapphire there was a box full of diamond brooches in the shapes of cow, crescent, rooster, grasshopper, wild duck, beetle, bee, donkey, horse & cab, the U. S. flag, lizard...
...Harvard men today, Professor Copeland is the most elusive of Harvard's sages, heard and seen once perhaps in the college year, take this exodus to heart? He might answer lightly that with "Copey" goes also the last hope of walking into the Yard to find the famous Boylston cow placidly cropping the lawn in front of Hollis: always a favorite, though remote, dream of the Vagabond's. For although any Boylston professor has the traditional right to pasture his hypothetical cow in the Yard, what person less venerable than "Copey" might have dared? But he never...
Professor Copeland came to Harvard in 1893 as lecturer on English Literature, becoming assistant professor in 1910 and associate professor in 1917. In 1925 he was made the Boylston professor, there by acquiring the traditional right, never exercised, of pasturing a cow in the Yard...