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...herd-195 adults, 50 calves-is on the 20,000-acre Goodnight ranch, 40 mi. southeast of Amarillo, Tex. That whole region until the 1870's was the grazing ground of vast buffalo herds. Pioneers wanted the prairies for cattle-raising, between 1868 and 1878 deliberately killed practically every buffalo...
Episodes in the seal-hunt have that intimate realism which the cinema alone can give such a subject. The Viking grinds through ice sometimes so thick that it has to be dynamited. When a radio report reveals a seal herd 20 miles away, the swilers debark and scramble over 20 miles of broken ice to find them. The hunt itself ?the men deploying to stalk the seals, killing them with shotguns?is ably but too briefly photographed. Tragic is the situation of one squeaking white baby seal, stuck to a lump of ice; when his mother pauses to nose...
...means of distinguishing the sheep from the wolves. Strangely enough or usually enough in such circumstances both parties are happy with the contrivance. The sheep are allowed immediately to enter the most reputable speakeasies to be fleeced, while the wolves can now simply separate their prey from the common herd...
...When the musicians play, Pribilof fur seals?if any chance to be about?are piped to the surface. The cutter swings, the music sounds again; again the rising seals are noted. Presently the guardsmen have formed a very good idea of the size of the seal herd, a report on which is part of their duty...
...Mayor Thompson's campaign lacked its usual street circus. He had wanted to parade a herd of fat swine through the Loop, each one labelled with a job his opponent already held, but his friends dissuaded him from such an exhibition. The Mayor then settled down to verbal abuse of Democrat Cermak. He called him "the biggest crook who ever ran for Mayor." He accused him of being anti-Irish, anti-German, anti-Polish, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic. He appealed for the support of "one hundred percenters" against "foreigners and hyphenaters" and in the next breath promised to "load...