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Married. Peter Llewellyn Davies, London publisher, original of Sir James Matthew Barrie's "Peter Pan;'' and the Honorable Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven, one of the famed socialite twin daughters of Lord Ruthven, Lieutenant Governor of the Island of Guernsey; in London. To escape the crowds outside, Author Barrie, the bridegroom's godfather, left the church via furnace room and coal...
...some cities even such a homely thing as the family wash may cause cracked skulls, bombings. Last week saw the continuation of a new kind of peacetime war. The Nation's milk, product of patient kine, beverage of babies, churned up in violence.* Near Plainfield, Ill. The Guernsey herd of Isaac Lentz, an independent dairyman who had withdrawn from a local milk distributing association and cut his price, lay in their stalls placidly swishing their tails and chewing their nocturnal cuds. Suddenly Farmer Lentz heard a mighty roar. Running outside he discovered that his barn had been bombed...
...work as a grader when the Union Pacific first pushed into Utah. Together the Wattis brothers built the Western Pacific from Salt Lake City to Oroville, Calif, (a $20,000,000 job), the Southern Pacific into Mexico, the American Falls Dam in Idaho, the Gibson Dam in Montana, the Guernsey Dam in Wyoming, the Hetch-Ketchy Dam in California...
...cows named Mrs. Pauline Guernsey and Mrs. Winnie Jersey and their calves Dolly and Dimples were well acquainted with Los Angeles by last week. Bumped, joggled but still placid, they had been carted around by two big trucks among 85 of Los Angeles' 294 public elementary schools. They had been gazed at, petted by some 2,000 school children daily. Their guardian, one Jay Dutter, member of the California Dairy Council, had lectured about them, fed them, demonstrated the uses of such typical bovine features as the udder.* Sponsor of this tour was Mrs. Etta Louise Ross, assistant director...
...Guernsey gaffers believe that the cry "Haro!" is an abbreviation of "Ha, Rollo!" an appeal to Rollo, first Duke of Normandy. More probably it comes from Anglo-Saxon licra or hara, an exclamation intended to attract attention. At Irish county fairs hucksters still shout "Aral Aral" when displaying their wares...