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Trail Driving Days, by Dee Brown & Martin F. Schmitt. A first-class roundup of cow-country legends, thickly illustrated (TIME...
Unable to get a cow, Martin J. Hertz 2L yesterday tried to cash a check written on the side of a wooden grocery crate at the Harvard Trust Company...
...this unusual medium of exchange was inspired by an excerpt from A. P. Herbert's "Uncommon Law," in which the author states that under the Negotiable Instrument Requirements a bank is compelled to cash a check even if written on the side of a cow. The current inflationary price of cows, however, forced Hertz to improvise...
...familiar dramatics is the Custer expedition against the Sioux that ended in the disaster of the Little Big Horn. But, even during the massacre, the film hedges on its six-shooting action and offers only a distant and muddy-colored glimpse. Based on one of Ernest Haycox's cow-country novels, Bugles is nearly as empty of content as surprises. Forrest Tucker rings a few changes on the role of a comedy Irish trooper, arid Director Roy Rowland, by repeated applications of Hollywood oil, almost manages to keep the lumbering plot from creaking too loudly...
...Cow Is Our Mother. Against such popular appeal, the snarling Communist and the colorless Congress Party candidates who opposed the Maharaja stood little chance. But the Maharaja had a few Tammany-style tricks up his sleeve as well. "In Bombay," he told his audience, "Congress is permitting the erection of a factory where hundreds of cows will be killed ... to solve the food problem. The cow is like our mother. Perhaps Congress will next suggest that we should kill our mothers and eat them." The voters howled in disgust at such a wicked thing, not knowing that there...