Word: herefords
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...Breed is all conventional outdoor fun, enlivened with fist fights, rugged scenery, and the green-eyed beauty of Maureen O'Hara, who makes Technicolor seem a necessity. But the 4-H sex appeal of this genial western centers principally upon a white-faced bull named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds of lean...
...They are fine heifers-deep-bodied, fine animals. They are the product of Santa Gertrudis heifers bred to Hereford bulls-a fine combination." A young Mexican cowhand drove the cattle from atop a ponylike animal. "It's not a pony at all. It's a Galiceno horse, a direct descendant of the horses the Spaniards brought from Europe. They've got the lines of a thoroughbred in miniature. Look...
Singer Jimmy Dean (The Jimmy Dean Show on ABC) yuks and yatters and carries on with homey talk and Bible songs while the beady eyes within his Hereford face rove the studio, missing nothing. Dean, whose recording of Big, Bad John once sent all teenagers, is really the darling of their mothers, who want to call him in off the street and give him a slice of warm pie with melting vanilla ice cream on it. Incredible as it may seem to ABC's metropolitan viewers, he may be around for a long time...
...63rd International Livestock Exposition in Chicago's pungent Union Stockyards, a gentleman farmer from Poughquag, N.Y., named Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 48, took home a raft of ribbons. His polled (hornless) Hereford cattle, part of a herd of 300 raised on his 1,100-acre ranch 25 miles south of Hyde Park, grabbed off ten prizes, including a first and second place award. A manager runs the place, but Roosevelt, who bought Clove Creek Farms twelve years ago, spends most of his summers there and keeps in touch from his Washington law offices the rest of the year...
...champion in 1959, began roping chickens and dogs when he was still a toddler, graduated to goats at seven. "I've had a rope in my hands ever since I can remember," says Altizer, and his rope has won him a 38,000-acre ranch stocked with 600 Hereford cows, 6,000 sheep, 4,500 angora goats...