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...school was organized as a town, to teach civic duty; boys paid '"town" taxes on their radios and bicycles, purchased "licenses" to hunt & fish on the 3,000-acre campus. Mrs. Riddle provided a blooded herd (one Guernsey cow cost $60,000) for the instruction of her young gentleman farmers. She also spent money on good instructors...
...also as The Thundering Herd, All This and Fenner Too, the Bureau of Missing Persons...
Near Goodell, Iowa, Farmer Albert Sheriff walked out among his herd of fine, fat swine. Three weeks ago, he could have got $27.50 a hundredweight for them; now hogs were down to $19.50. Said he: "I rode the market up and made money, and I'll ride it down. I think the break is good for the country...
...examination of the files of the CRIMSON would be interesting to the extent that such a study would reveal whether the paper had run with the herd or been in the forefront in the formulation of campus opinion. My message for the seventieth anniversary is that the CRIMSON always should lead in the expression of honest opinion. Very sincerely yours, FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT...
...came from Detroit's music lover Henry Reichhold, who runs the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Reichhold's publicity men snagged newspaper space by calling Prizewinner Robertson a cowboy-composer. Actually, though Robertson did herd sheep in Utah as a boy, he is a music professor at Brigham Young University, and winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle award in 1944 for a string quartet. He had not even entered Reichhold's contest: he sent the score, signed "Nostrebor" (his name spelled backwards) to his New York publisher, who entered it without Robertson's knowledge...