Word: marwood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holding his first annual cattle auction at his farm near Carthage, Tenn., Democratic Senator Albert Gore unloaded 51 females and four bulls for a tidy gross of $69,530. Observing the auction, Artist-Author Ludwig (Hotel Splendide) Bemelmans was so carried away by Miss Burgess of Marwood, a Black Angus yearling heifer, that he got her for $1,250. "She had such a kind face," Bemelmans explained, "I couldn't keep from buying her. I also liked the idea of keeping her for a pet, not raising her for slaughter." To put Miss Burgess up, Bemelmans will...
...articles on the doings of Parliament, the state of the nation's defenses, profiles on Disraeli and George Sala, one of the first roving correspondents. There was an article on Queen Victoria's Windsor apartments by an anonymous palace stringman, a first-rate TiMEstyle piece on James Marwood, the public hangman; a survey of drunkenness in Britain, several articles by a Time reporter on industrial relations and strikes, a blast at England's Royal Academy...