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...Elsie and a cow named Spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bert Testifies | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...obtain about $1.3 million in loans. He stoutly defended his banking practices, reminiscing about the lesson he had learned in his first banking job, as a $90-a-month teller at the Calhoun (Ga.) First National Bank. One of his customers, Elsie Goforth, regularly put up a Guernsey cow named Spot as collateral on $100 loans. Once she defaulted and, to Lance's horror, showed up at the bank to surrender Spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bert Testifies | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...Jack and the Beanstalk, for instance, why is Jack rewarded rather than punished for taking objects from the giant? (A possible answer: Jack paid with his mother's cow for the beans that grew into the giant's beanstalk. Possible comeback: But he didn't pay the giant.) Does Jack succeed because of magic, good luck or his own efforts? (The story includes some evidence of all three.) The students also mull over different characterizations of Jack and the giant in two different versions of the story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: From Puss-in-Boots to Plato | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...many times will Phil Rizzuto say "holy cow...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Waiting for Your Mother's Cookies | 3/19/1980 | See Source »

...drove it to the edge--toward a blue bowl with silver specks)) a cow hand in the Drby whipping a thoroughbred to the line. Sophisticaiton could not repel spirit. Yang rammed a screaming yin across the night sky. He brought into his gut the paragon of rationality and the pride of corporate innovation and technology and regergitated it all over the heavans with an ass slappin' yell. Western, righteous stuff was taking it eastward home to its staid, straight beginnings, sp.tting and yawping...

Author: By Jim Tyson, | Title: Chariots of the Gods | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

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