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...Rock Musician James Taylor (TIME cover, March 1), however, pig means only happiness. Taylor's pet sow Mona took first prize (swine division) in the 110th Martha's Vineyard Agricultural Society Livestock Show and Fair, and later had the ultimate award bestowed upon her: a purple ribbon for being the best animal in the entire fair. Said the elated Taylor: "I'm as proud of her as I can possibly...
...Sold. Thanks to alert leadership in a growing number of states, during the past five years fully one-third of the nation's 4,000,000 4-H members have been signed up in cities; another third now live in "nonfarm" suburban areas. Youngsters producing blue ribbon bread and corn still exist, but their numbers are declining. "We used to put more emphasis on the chicken than on the child," says Indiana State Leader Edward L. Frickey. "Now we put the blue ribbon...
...part of their three-week training program, fledgling district sales representatives are asked to concoct a new flavor. Robbins even turned TIME'S Michael Creedman loose in the lab last week. The reporter mixed print-stock-white vanilla with letter-size bits of black chocolate and a ribbon of magazine-border-red strawberry to produce a flavor called Stop the Presses...
...year after the Penn Central Transportation Co. wheezed into bankruptcy, its court-appointed trustees have put up for sale its blue-ribbon real estate holdings along a ten-block stretch of Madison, Vanderbilt, Park and Lexington avenues in midtown Manhattan. Up for bids is the land under 22 buildings, including the Waldorf-Astoria, the Pan Am Building and the corporate headquarters of ITT, Union Carbide, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., Bankers Trust Co. and the Chemical Bank. These companies have leased the buildings, in some cases well into the 21st century, but eventually the buyers of the land will get control...
...marvels by fetching $1,200,000. A smallish Gauguin self-portrait, far less impressive than several others he painted, brought $420,000-an auction record for that artist. Degas's 37½-inch-high La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans, wearing the original cloth tutu and silk hair ribbon Degas used, broke the existing auction record for sculpture, selling for $380,000. Ironically, the little statue was received with such hostility when Degas first exhibited it in 1881 that he never exhibited any other figure during his lifetime...