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...Toledo, nabbed after an hour's chase over snow-covered streets, William R. Robinson confessed that he had just robbed the Hillcrest Hotel for the second time because "it was so easy the last time," told the cops that he had come back to Toledo from Michigan to "read my press notices at the library...
...Hereford show bull, H. C. Larry Domino 12th won ribbons wherever he appeared, from champion of Chicago's International Livestock Show in 1947 to reserve champion of the American Royal Show in Kansas City. Last week his owner, C. A. Smith of West Virginia's Hillcrest Farms, sold a half interest in Larry Domino to E. C. McCormick, an Ohio insurance executive and owner of McCormick Hereford Farms in Medina. The price: $105,000, the largest sum ever paid for half a bull...
Half-Owner McCormick, who already owns Hillcrest Larry 7, one of Larry's sons, will share Larry's siring services with Smith. "It sounds like a lot of money," said an executive of the American Hereford Association last week, "but with that kind of breeding, McCormick might get his money back in one sale...
Winters admits that in many of Robinson's poems there is a frosty New England eccentricity, "an intellectualism which is clever rather than perceptive, and which reduces his dry rhythm to [a] jingling parlor verse. ..." But Robinson rose above this, he thinks, in stanzas like these in Hillcrest...
Olsen, with his long stride, managed to shake off everyone but Dartmouth's McLane. The two raced neck & neck through the New Hampshire woodland, along a hillcrest, over rolling meadow. Then Olsen called on his last reserves, forged ahead, won by 14 seconds. But McGill still trailed Dartmouth by two points. All depended on the last event-the jump...