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...Robin Hood" and 18-year-old Evelyn Asay's fat little "Sargo." Judge Yule paced from one to another in solemn worriment, arms hang ing, fingers outstretched like a house guest looking for a towel. Finally he waved the Purdue entries aside. Josh Biglands, sawedoff, red-faced herdsman of the University of Alberta, shortened his grip on "Robin Hood's" tether and nudged the Shorthorn steer's feet so that his 1,245 pounds were evenly distributed. Pretty Evelyn Asay, of Mt. Carroll, Ill., just hung on, let her Hereford shift his steaks however it suited...
...afternoon waned, dinnertime came, then night, but still the Deficiency herdsman stuck to the floor: explaining, arguing, wheedling votes. Hot Senatorial tempers kept the galleries lathered with laughter. But Adams and his adjournment-bent majority held their lines, beat off all amendments, brought the Third Deficiency Bill safely through the gauntlet...
...Olympic Games last year (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936, et seq.). George de Vries' 1,000-cow Vitamin D Dairy in Norwalk near Los Angeles was strike-bound by C. I. O.'s Dairy Workers' Union. Plodding up & down the picket line led by a striking herdsman was a placid Jersey cow bearing the placard: I WON'T BE MILKED BY A SCAB...
...quarter-century ago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and January. The tribesman caught sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water, which he would have described, had he chanced to be a U. S. college man, as a soiled white football. When he fished it ashore he saw that it was an egg, and its great size recalled to his mind the stories he had heard around village fires of a mighty...
Marshal Badoglio. squinting at his staff maps, knew that no matter how it might pain the House of Lords (see col. 3), a forthright poison gas campaign was the quickest and cheapest way of breaking opposition in a country where every herdsman has a rifle. The gassing began...