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Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 35, cinemactress, ofttime Tarzan's mate, and John Farrow, 40, cinema director: their fourth child, third son; in Hollywood. Name: John Charles Villiers. Weight...
...sponsor: ex-Congressman Samuel Dickstein, now a New York City judge. Garsson's chief interest: high-salaried alien cinema stars who might be proved to be in the country illegally. Among his interests: Gilbert Roland, Anna Sten, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Farrow...
...young females) and sows. Some are at Dale's, more than half at Gus's. In early April, at evening feeding, the Kuesters begin to sidle up to these elite pigs and delicately strip their swelling teats. If a drop of milk shows, the sow will probably farrow during the night. So she is rushed into the farrowing barn, which, jauntily topped by a weather vane in the form of a pig, has pens for 16 expectant gilts and sows...
Maternity Ward. There begin long, sleepless nights during which Gus Kuester may pace the center aisle of the farrowing barn like an expectant father. Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen. Most pig births are normal, but sometimes a little pig needs to be helped into the hungry world. Sometimes one is born in a covering caul which has to be ripped off by a profit-motivated finger. Sometimes the heaving, grunting sows, from weakness, clumsiness or distress, lie or roll on their farrow. Sometimes they try to eat them. Sweeter to a pig farmer...
Then they signed the letters with their cold, official signatures: Lieut. Dean E. Hallmark, Lieut. William G. Farrow, Sergeant Harold A. Spatz. They were the Doolittle flyers who had bombed Tokyo in the first spring of war and had been taken prisoner. Soon after, they were executed by the Japanese...