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...Mooooo." "Now I'm going to show you something," said the President, after he thanked his friends for their gift. He led them over to the fence of a feed lot where his 18 purebred Aberdeen Angus and two Holstein cattle were chewing their cuds. "Now let 'er go Dick!" he called to his driver Dick Flohr, who was seated in the President's special Crosley runabout. Driver Flohr touched a button and a horn let out a deep "mooooo." While host and guests laughed, the cattle rushed up to answer the call, which the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plowing & Politics | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...German ophthalmologist, Er-langen's Professor Eugen Schreck, reports a danger-free adaptation of the Ridley technique. Instead of following nature closely, as did Ridley, in putting the plastic lens behind the iris, in the position of the removed natural lens, Surgeon Schreck puts his lens in front of the iris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Lenses for Old | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...John the Founder, if I can do so without en-count-er-ing John the Yardcop...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

Actually, The Count At Harvard is an attempt to apply the slick amoralism of the fin de siecle approach to a story about a Harvard man. Roger Norris, alias the "Count," is a suave, charming n'er-do-well who drops Wilde-like epigrams on every possible occasion. He is lightly cynical about everything, except for one brief time when he meets a "good," serious and proper girl. She, however, rejects his suit, because the Count is not a very good security risk. The Count does not let this overly effect him, and returns to his flippant outlook. The most...

Author: By Edmund H. Harvey, | Title: A Half-Century of Harvard in Fiction | 12/1/1955 | See Source »

...Keogh, who was born 39 years ago on a 280-acre farm in Platte County, Neb., was eleven and in the seventh grade in 1928 when he was the lone pupil in District 42 School in Burrows Township. With the undivided attention of Teach er Elizabeth Liebig, he studied seventh and eighth-grade lessons simultaneously. In between, he argued politics with Teacher Liebig: she was for Prohibition and against Al Smith; he was for Smith, against Prohibition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Nov. 14, 1955 | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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