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...Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, he ate California grapes, munched a hamburger, downed chocolate milk and lemonade. He posed with, but refused to kiss, the Toni Twins. "That would be like Jim Folsom," he explained. He laid a hand on the back of a 1,500-lb. grand champion Hereford bull, awarded a silver platter to the owner of a prize boar, and shook 1,650 hands in 55 minutes. At every stop, he was mobbed by autograph seekers. Illinois Republicans could not have been more pleased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vice Presidents Days | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...streets of Buenos Aires last week the talk was of football and horse races and cattle fairs. National pride had been hurt when a Uruguayan bull won the Hereford competition at the annual 50-ciedad Rural. But all the nation was boasting of the fireman named Delfo Cabrera who had won the marathon at the Olympics (in token of the nation's gratitude, Evita Peron gave him a furnished house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Rubber-Stamp Field Day | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

Ayrshire Guernsey Hereford Jersey Merino Shorthorn

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Best by Test | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Tucked away in a quiet corner of the Manchester Guardian's "Country Diary" last week was some satisfying pastoral correspondence from a quiet corner of Hereford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pastoral Letter | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

...were particularly interested in the line: "As a calf high-tailed it for the mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the ground." Up here in the Hereford country of the Missouri Ozarks, no vaquero would drop his rope over a calf's neck for fear of general ridicule by everybody in the valley; if he could not get a clean throw at its front feet, he would settle for the hind feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1948 | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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