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Rain had been beating down on the country around Thousand Oaks, Calif, for three days. At Louis Goebel's Wild Animal Farm it turned the grounds to hay-littered mud, dripped from red circus wagons, blew coldly through a rusty cage in which two shaggy lions paced and turned. The lions were not exercised while the rain fell-they were mean cats, and overage (4½ years old) for training, and the bad weather made them sullen and difficult...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Death in the Arena | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...that gave such milk I'd dress her in the finest silk, Feed her on the choicest hay, And milk her 40 times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: What, No Sherry Cow? | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

...Alfalfa Bill's 80th birthday, Chief of Staff Hurst and the Squirrel Rifles had a party for him in the rotunda of the Capitol. On top of a stack of baled alfalfa hay was a birthday cake. The check they presented to him was a good deal short of the $4,000 which Oklahoma owed him, but it would help take care of Alfalfa Bill in his frayed and prideful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: For an Old Debt | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...four that got a good scare was Army. In Philadelphia's Franklin Field, desperate Pennsylvania switched to a two-platoon system for the first time and made 23 first downs to Army's ten. But Army, an old hand at two-platooning, squeaked by, 14-13. Hay in the Barn. Apart from the big four, the only team of any stature left that was still unbeaten was Virginia. In 192-lb. Johnny Papit, Virginia had a powerful, swivel-hipped fullback who was as good as they come (his coach rates him better than the great Bill Dudley, Virginia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Four | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...game, he asks his scouts three short questions: "How can we win? Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces to & fro overseeing the whole production. "By Friday, the hay is in the barn," he says, "We can't play the game for them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Big Four | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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