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...feed lot where his 18 purebred Aberdeen Angus and two Holstein cattle were chewing their cuds. "Now let 'er go Dick!" he called to his driver Dick Flohr, who was seated in the President's special Crosley runabout. Driver Flohr touched a button and a horn let out a deep "mooooo." While host and guests laughed, the cattle rushed up to answer the call, which the President's farmers often use at feeding time. Said Ike: "When you want to see some of the herd, you just blow it, and by golly, they come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plowing & Politics | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Venezuela was a symbolic place for Dominguin's comeback; it was a bad horn wound there three years ago that had led to his retirement. "I've lost the joy of fighting," he explained at the time. A millionaire twice over, he traded the suit of lights for blue jeans and a checkered shirt on his 6,000-acre New Castilian estate, with its 20-room, tower-topped house, marble statue of himself, and an antique bed for a restless bullfighter-16 ft. by 7 ft. Over the gate he posted his new motto: "Do nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Bullfighter's Comeback | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...Jigger (a clockwork minstrel) were the first mechanical toys mass-manufactured in the U.S. Within four years, Marx had been promoted to manage the company's East Rutherford, NJ. plant, and soon afterward he had his first idea for a toy. One of Strauss's products was a toy horn that bleated "Mamma, Papa." Marx amplified the sound effects, redesigned the horn to resemble a carnation and brought it out as a paper lapel flower that doubled as a noisemaker at parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Little King | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

...game pictures are marvelous, but some of the statements in the article are not realistic. It should be against the game law for anyone to talk about shooting moose with as light a rifle as a 30-30, and you don't need a birchbark horn to call moose. A cheerleader's megaphone or a rolled up copy of TIME will do just as well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 28, 1955 | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...films (Young Man with a Horn); by Ruth Meinardi, 41; after 19 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 21, 1955 | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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