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...first thing that Ivan Petrovich remembered, the first thing in all his life, was the warm sleek side of a sow, the fat rich smell of her, and the squeaks of the little piglet he'd pushed away to make room for him, and the huge woman that tore him away from the sleek warm sow and hit him and said, 'You little sookin sin' (son-of-a-bitch), and something about piglets being money and babies a devil's own nuisance." The next thing Ivan remembered was his mother killing his father with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unofficial Russian Novelist | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...Texas Centennial Ail-American Swine Show in Dallas last week a Poland China sow named Royal Lady farrowed eleven shoats between noon and 2 p. m., entered the show ring and won the senior yearling blue ribbon and a $20 prize, returned to her pen and delivered another piglet, returned to the ring and won the senior championship and a $10 prize, returned to her pen and delivered piglet No. 13, returned to the ring and won the grand championship and another $10 prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Piglets & Prizes | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

Cheerfully violating a St. Paul ordinance against taking pigs into public buildings, Iowa's Governor Clyde LaVerne Herring marched into the office of Minnesota's Governor Floyd Bjornstjerne Olson to deliver a 265-lb. prize Hampshire piglet named Floyd of Rosedale which he had lost to Governor Olson in a bet on the Iowa-Minnesota football game (TIME, Nov. 18). Hardly had Pig Floyd oinked a greeting to Governor Floyd when Governor Herring was informed that one Virgil Case, Des Moines vice crusader, had got out a warrant against him for breaking Iowa's gambling laws. Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1935 | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...sure-fire effects, attain nostalgic softness, rise to mighty crescendoes. Leader of the Moscow Cathedral Choir is slender, personable Vicolas Afonsky, a Tsarist army officer. The featured soloist is Kapiton Zaporojetz a massive basso profundo whom the Tsar's young daughters used to call "that rosy milk-fed piglet." Conductor Afonsky did his job in a quiet, self-effacing way last week. Basso Zaporojetz emitted cavernous tones to enrich the ensemble. But the best solo work was turned in by one Madame Pavlenko, a big earthy contralto who stepped to the footlights, closed her eyes, intoned the Gretchanmoff Credo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Russian's Russians | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

Contributors to the American Mission to Lepers, which now supports 184 leproseries, own toy pig banks in which they deposit their odd coins. The idea developed 20 years ago when Wilbur Chapman, Kansas farm boy, bought a piglet, named him Pete, raised him to pighood, gave his profit to Leper missions. Last week Mr. Chapman, now a St. Paul electrical engineer, visited Manhattan to permit a firm-willed patrician from Richmond, Va., Mrs. Robert Randolph Harrison, to pin a silver medal on him for his boyhood initiative. Mrs. Harrison during the ceremony wore a little gold pig on a brooch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blued Lepers, Pig Banks | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

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