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...Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Voice in the Land | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...sofas. In the piano exhibit, eleven-year-old Frances Dean, of Comanche, delighted her schoolmates and amazed exhibitors by sitting down at a new baby grand and expertly rippling through a Paderewski minuet. Many a future farmer headed for the livestock barns to primp animals for the junior steer, hog and sheep shows. Ralph Finke, 13, of Denison, hauled out a can of Johnson's wax and set to work polishing the horns of his Hereford yearling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Big Time in Dallas | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Meddlers Beware. Politicians and chair-warmers who tried to fight blunt Dr. Hawley came out second best. Angered by pork-hungry Congressmen who wanted V.A. hospitals in out-of-the-way places, Hawley cracked: "I recommend that we build hospitals like they do hog houses in Indiana-on skids. Then they could be hauled around from one congressional district to another just before election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctor to 4,000,000 | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

Success. In Fowler, Colo., a hog-calling contest was abruptly interrupted when hogs broke out of their pens some three blocks away, joined the contestants to see what all the calling was about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Arrested and jugged overnight for drunkenness were John D. Spreckels III, 38, one of the playboys who share the Spreckels sugar fortune, and his curlylocked third wife, Lou Dell, 37. Heretofore John's fun-loving, free-swinging cousin, Adolph B. Jr.,*had tended to hog the limelight of the tabloids, but John and Lou Dell won through last week with a knock-down-drag-out fight in the middle of Los Angeles' Santa Monica Boulevard. While the Spreckelses whaled away with enough vigor to leave each other bruised about the head and ears (see cuts), crowds gathered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 1, 1947 | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

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