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...special car for an automobile at Robertson, Mo. and arrived at Beer Baron August Anheuser Busch Jr.'s manicured, 550-acre estate, Grant's Farm, at 6:05. To the horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants had been assembled for the occasion), drank a slug of bourbon, nibbled some hors d'oeuvres, shook hands with his host, and was on his way again...
Died. Alfred Julien Lomen, 61, president of the Lomen Commercial Co. of Nome, Alaska, onetime owner with his brothers of the largest reindeer herd in the Territory, Arctic rescue expert (he was the first white man to reach the scene of the 1935 Will Rogers-Wiley Post plane crash); after long illness; in Seattle...
...been swept into the rhetorical realms of women's rights, regimentation, Freedom of the Individual, Harvard's parity or superiority to Midwestern universities, etc. We have suddenly become a Burning Issue. We are reminded: (1) Beanies are cute (2) Beanies are ugly (3) We are indulging a degrading herd instinct (4) We are following the dictates of Free Enterprise and by-golly-have-a-right-to (5) Women have no business at Harvard at all (the Reactionaries) (6) Women must be supported in their battle against a totalitarian exclusion polciy (the Marxists) (7) If we keep on like this...
...calls him anything but "Doc.") Born & raised on a farm near Madison in eastern Nebraska, Doc Reeves can talk with his patients about stock and crops, fodder and weather. In his office or at the hospital he can hear the shrill yipping of cowboys as they drive a herd of red Herefords through the middle of town to a feed lot. Many of his cases are cowboys with broken bones or farm boys with mangled hands...
...fairly heterogeneous collection of songs. From his familiar theme, he goes through "Someday," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "Room Full of Roses," and "Ghost Riders in the Sky." In the last-named number, the arena is darkened, ultra-violent rays beam down on Gene's fluorescent shirt, and a herd of cattle parades across the floor...