Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evidence that some citizens are up in arms over the Yale outrages came yesterday. A Connecticut farmer shot Yale freshman John Brittingham in the right hip and arm with a shotgun. The farmer told police that he was guarding against night-time marauders who were dumping his milk cans. Three other Yalies, who were with Brittingham, were released by police and their names withheld...
Stepping off the train into a milk-white "duck" (amphibious truck), Tandon was pelted with flowers. Headed by an elephant borrowed from an itinerant circus, the procession jogged through packed and bedecked streets. Behind Tandon's duck came 5,000 Congress delegates, a score of mounted military cadets and a group of 100 folk dancers tripping to the shrill notes of the flute-like shanai...
...unlikely occurrence since most of India's 176 million cow population perform the useful function of providing motive power, milk, and dung for fuel. The relatively small number of aged cattle who roam the streets and paths are cared for like beggars by the community. Their meager grass ration is no serious drain on food resources...
...Singer Dennis Day, and the jaundiced animadversions of Eddie Anderson as Rochester, Benny's valet. There were indications that Benny was using his radio time as a dry run for his TV debut next month: the biggest laughs from the studio audience came from sight gags about a milk-horse that were an imposition on millions of radio listeners...
Married. Margaret Sullavan, 41, husky-voiced star of stage (The Voice of the Turtle) and screen (No Sad Songs for Me); and Kenneth Arthur Wagg, 41, London businessman (malted milk); she for the fourth time (previous husbands: Actor Henry Fonda, Director William Wyler, Producer-Agent Leland Hayward), he for the second; on Long Island...