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Caumsett Spitfire was dying of pneumonia. He had a 105.5° fever, a racking cough shook his 800-pound frame. Despite huge doses of sulfanilamide and an oxygen tent, he grew steadily weaker. Then Spitfire, a purebred Guernsey bull, achieved a measure of immortality-he became the first animal (outside a laboratory) to be treated with penicillin. WPB, which now has plentiful supplies for all serious cases, let his veterinarian have 2,500,000 units (normal human dose: 1,000,000 units). At week's end, the news from Hardwick, Mass. was better: after a few gigantic shots, Spitfire...
...others: Henry Raymond, founder of the N.Y. Times; Alfred Guernsey; Henry Mills Alden, sponsor of Mark Twain and Henry James. President editor: Historian Frederick Lewis Al len (Only Yesterday...
From a dock at Mobile last week a score of bellowing Guernsey, Jersey and Hoistein heifers were swung aboard a ship, Puerto Rico-bound. They were the first tangible results of the most down-to-earth postwar plan devised by a U.S. church. The church was the Brethren (Dunkers*), most of whose 185,000 members are farmers. The project: raising heifers to send to postwar Europe to replace depleted stock, help feed hungry Europeans...
...other walls portraits of distinguished cattle share honors with the cattlemen. Among them: the Duke of Northumberland, "the best Shorthorn bull in all England in 1839"; a charming oil of a Guernsey cow with dainty pink nostrils and eyelids. There is a two-foot bronze sculpture of a Belgian horse by Rosa Bonheur's gifted brother, Isadore...
Aside from the switch up front, both teams will line up exactly as they did last time. Dick Mechem and Ollie Taylor will be the Crimson defensemen, with Goodie Harding in the cage. HARVARD YALE Butron, lw rw, Burgwin Everts, c c, Guernsey G. R. Harding, rw lw, Tilghman Mechem,ld rd, Harmen Taylor, rd ld, Meyer G. Harding, g g, Swift