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...Palm Springs, Calif., Leo ("The Lip") Duroc'her, bellicose manager of the New York Giants, dawdled with a golf club while his neatly fabricated wife, Cinemactress Laraine Day, photographed a sunny scene for their family archives. Durocher's sunny mood and vacation will end next week, when he will be in Phoenix to start spring training, whip the world champion Giants into shape for aiming at their 18th National League pennant...
...Quarter Horse studs, Angus heifers, Hereford bulls, Hereford heifers, Angus steers. At each class he stood back, then circled around the animals, felt for firmness and fat. He passed to the Southdown fat lambs, the Rambouillet ewes, the Hampshire ewes. Finally he moved to the swine area for the Duroc fat barrows, the Berkshire fat barrows and the Poland gilts. Of all the classes, the fat lambs troubled him most ("and I raise them at home...
...Snell describes heterosis in the case of swine (Hampshires crossed with Duroc Jerseys produced superior pigs). Since he cannot repeat the same experiment with people, he sifts a great mass of records to look for self-propelled experiments in human hybridization...
...years my business was raising and selling pure-bred Duroc Jersey hogs. I raised hogs that had so much sex appeal I sold 'em as high as $500 apiece. . . . It's not the young sow with her sex appeal that produces a litter of ten or twelve pigs. It's the old sow that's lost her sex appeal and is reckless. . . . When an old sow has produced ten or twelve pigs, in two or three weeks one or two or three of them start to go back until finally when weaning time comes, they...
Porko, pedigreed Duroc Jersey pig, with two Great Danes, two Afghan hounds, many a crate of pheasants and chickens, left on the motorship Santa Maria, in the charge of Dog-fancier José Leguia, son of famed Augusto B. Leguia, President of Peru. Porko will not grace the Presidential pigpens. Son Leguia intends him as a gift to a friend. Danes, hounds, will join 60 dogs at his Peruvian farm, 150 miles from Lima...