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Nine-year-old Carnation Ormsby Madcap Fayne, an aristocratic Washington cow of Holstein-Friesian parentage, completed last week a new annual world's record for milk production. Carnation, called Capper by her chums, last year gave 24 times her own weight (1,750 lb.) in milk, a total of 41,944 lb., an average of 55 quarts a day-more milk than nine ordinary cows can manage...
...battleship Admiral Scheer; at Kiel the Scharnhorst, at Gdynia the Gneisenau, both out of action for repairs. Unaccounted for by the British is the 10,000-ton Lutzow, possibly Russia's Baltic victim. Or the Russians hit and misidentified one of the ex-battleships, now training ships Schleswig-Holstein and Schlesien...
...right. She was a 1,300-Ib. Holstein, a runaway from a herd of 28 unloaded that day from Wisconsin. Heading back toward the farm, she had wandered along a creek bed which leads into the labyrinth of sewers under the city...
Though her father was Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Alexandra had been strictly brought up in the vikingly virtues of sewing and Swedish movements. Sometimes Hans Christian Andersen would drop in to read her one of his morbid little masterpieces for children. In England his place was less excitingly filled by Lord Tennyson who hailed Alexandra's marriage with these lines...
Back home after the war, he plugged for restoration of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg monarchy. George II, living in genteelly poor exile, had indicated his willingness to take his old job back and restoration fever grew. Little John glimpsed victory, but at the last moment powerful old General George Kondylis neatly elbowed him aside, brought George back to the throne, and himself became first commoner. Only a falling out between George and the General, followed by an opportune death, finally dropped the plum of premiership into Little John...