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...issue of TIME [as I reported in the Memphis Press-Scimitar of Dec. 20] there is a picture of a young man picking up a small heifer (Phoebe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 28, 1946 | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...program opened with the dreamy old song, Won't You Wait Till the Cows Come Home, accented by the tinkle of a cowbell and the recorded moo of a Jersey heifer. It closed with a gooey, sentimental ballad called Contented, sung by a weepy-voiced tenor ("I'm on heaven's own doorstep, so contented with you"). Between the moo and the mush, the Carnation Milk Co. poured out a half hour of semi-classical music as thick and sweet as its product. To keep its Contented Hour flowing smoothly, Carnation also hired such big names...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Contented | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

...bride, sitting with clasped hands and downcast eyes in front of a loosely hung curtain, "is a healthy, blowsy heifer, with an expression of self-restraint and self-satisfaction which is not very attractive." The man grabbing pies off the tray looks too much like the bride to be the bridegroom. So does the one pouring beer into three-pint mugs. They are probably her brothers. Her father, nowhere to be seen, must be dead. The bride's mother, her face hidden, sits on her right. But the bridegroom's face could not be hidden: Bruegel wouldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mystery Story | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

...Ayrshire heifer named Tiny, left only

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tom, Tom the Piper's Son | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

...also wonderfully handsome and softspoken, and he thrills her with his talk of being free, free, a law unto himself. He manages this by piracy, robbing the rich and giving generously to the poor. Stimulated by this philosophic man of action, Lady St. Columb begins to act like a heifer with a burr under her tail. At last she sails off with him for a quick dabble in piracy and gentler pastimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: New Picture, Oct. 9, 1944 | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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