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...wiry, high-domed man gnawed a massive cigar, paced briskly back & forth, and spewed memoranda in a loud Midwestern twang. Occasionally, hypnotized by his own train of thought, he ducked briefly into an open anteroom behind his desk, to stalk an idea among the stuffed heads of a water hog and an antelope, the skins of a lion and a jaguar, the sawed-off feet of an elephant and a rhino. Working in relay, three stenographers dashed into the huge office to scribble notes, dashed out again to rush the words down through the hierarchy of the 20th Century...
Instead, the market turned as contrary as a razorback hog. Without any Government supports whatever, and in spite of the huge supply, pork prices started to climb, and kept right on climbing. By last week Chicago hogs were at $20.25, a fat $4.05 above the old support level...
...Root-Hog or Die. Southwest Historian J. Frank Dobie (Coronado's Children, The Voice of the Coyote) picked up Ben Lilly's trail back in 1928, when he met the 20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery...
...young man, Alabama-born Ben Lilly inherited his uncle's Louisiana farm but left his livestock to "root-hog or die" while he spent long weeks in the woods, hunting bear. As a husband he was no more successful than as a farmer. One day when his wife said, "Ben, you like to shoot so well, why don't you get your gun and shoot that chicken hawk?" he left the house and did not come back for more than a year. "That hawk kept flying," he explained...
Steadiness keeps Doug "Hog" Wilde playing a top position. A transfer student from Holy Cross, Wilde's middle-70 scores have made him a consistent winner this year. Sam Seager, now playing his third year of varsity golf, is less steady, but practically unbeatable when really on his game. Seager has been known to blow four or five holes to an opponent before clipping in with a one-up victory. In the Intercollegiates two years ago, Seager holed a putt in near-darkness to give Harvard a 5 to 4 upset over Princeton...