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Gratwicke Beatrice II, a roan dairy shorthorn cow belonging to Winston Churchill, won first prize (?10) at the Kent county agricultural show. Later in the week Winnie proved his luck again when the express train he was riding in plowed into a loaded hay elevator at 76 m.p.h., gave him and the other passengers only a momentary jolt...
...were planning to spend $10 million to help develop gold mines in Africa, they picked Arthur Storke, 54, a mining man with an African background. Storke had trotted the globe and risen to the presidency of Climax Molybdenum Corp. He was an operating director of South Africa's Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., and of Rhodesian Selection Trust, Ltd.; during World War II, as minerals adviser to Britain's Ministry of Supply, he expedited mining operations in South Africa...
Charles Minor Blackford, 2nd Virginia Cavalry, kissed his wife goodbye, grabbed his double-barreled shotgun, mounted his "very fine roan" and rode out of Lynchburg, Va. one morning in June...
...hybrid of poet and prophet is tomahawk-faced Robinson Jeffers, almost as much famed in the U. S. for doing his writing in a stone tower, built by himself, over-looking California's Carmel Bay, as for his violent free-verse narratives and black-diamond lyrics in Tamar, Roan Stallion, The Women at Point Sur, Cawdor, et al. Jeffers' latest book, Such Counsels You Gave to Me, is predominantly in his prophetic vein. Its title-poem is a fast-moving narrative of a student's sick return from premedical school to the farm of his swinish father...
Last week 8,000 people crowded Hillsdale's fair grounds to see Contractor John Adrian's record-holders, Flaxie & Dan, brought from Williamsville. N. Y.. defend their laurels against their old rivals, George H. Statler's Ohio team of roan and sorrel Belgians, weighing 4,700 Ib. For five years one or the other of these teams has always held the world's record. Once they broke it three times in one day and they have dragged it up to unbelievable heights...