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They're There. In East Africa, jolly British Air Marshal Sir Keith Park, flying low over Kenya Colony's game lands, rubbed his eyes, took another peek at the herd of pink elephants below. The elephants, explained a knowing aide, had been rolling in reddish clay and they were indeed pink...
...Overcrowding is almost universal. At Craig Colony for epileptics, crowding is so bad that mattresses are spread on the floor of the Day Room at night. "The contrast between these crowded buildings and the cow barn, where the dairy herd of the institution is kept, is marked...
...could point to any organized sabotage, though the unfounded rumor that the herd had the dreaded Bang's disease looked suspiciously like a dirty Republican trick. But the strong gust of wind that blew the tent down, making it necessary to hold the auction in a crowded, drafty barn, was definitely an act of God. Even so, for a registered herd, the bids were suspiciously low. Jersey cows went at $100, and the owner stomped off in a huff when $10 was bid for a young bull. Squire Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s whole herd of 100 purebred dairy...
Farmer Henry Morgenthau Jr. and his tenant-partner Arthur D. Hoose are quitting the milk business. Last week, while co-owner Morgenthau was touring the battlefronts, Hoose announced that their herd of 100 purebred Jersey and Holstein cows would be put up for sale on Dec. 11. The Dutchess (N.Y.) County Fishkill Farms will be planted to fruit trees...
...delegate" of the fascist Paul Revere Sentinels, "George Pagnanelli" went to Washington to sabotage passage of the Lend-Lease bill. Mothers' Movement Führine Elizabeth Dilling and "a wild, milling mob of women" welcomed him. "My thundering herd," she screamed, "how do you like it? . . . Come on, mothers. Let's picket the Senate Building...