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...auctioneer's voice boomed out the cow's pedigree: "ZangwilPs Bijou Lass, the daughter of Throaty Contralto by that great sire Glittering Generalization." The bidding stopped at $320. "Before I could extricate myself," writes Sidney Joseph Perelman, "the auctioneer had brought me to my knees and was administering the estocada. In vain I pleaded that I had merely been clearing my throat, that I lived in a hotel for business girls where no cattle were permitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down on the Farm | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...artery following spinal anaesthesia-testified to Old 81st's greatness. Veterinarians chose this method as the one most likely to keep alive enough semen for a few more calves. Failing to find it, they buried the body under the elms of the Turner ranch. As the greatest sire in Hereford history, Old 81st had already provided the epitaph for the bronze tablet that will mark his grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Million-Dollar Baby | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...Fabulous Forties, strapping but starry-eyed debutante daughter of the sports world's Terrific Twenties, and by the same sire, World War, will be given her official coming out party in a great al fresco soiree under the flood lights of the Yankee Stadium here tomorrow night. Bill Cunningham in the Boston Herald, June 19. ...Al fresco, ad infinitum, ad nauseam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Press | 6/21/1946 | See Source »

...Commissioner for Indo-China, who with a single word had brought joy to Cambodia. Resplendent in purple wrap-around sam-pots, beribboned white tunics and black silk stockings, the bun-haired mandarins of Cambodia's court had smiled when they heard d'Argenlieu address their monarch as "Sire." The courtiers knew this meant that France no longer considered Sianouk as a native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return the French would expect continued Cambodian loyalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: Sire | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...more than the average farm can afford. By joining a breeding association, the farmer gets high-production genes at budget prices. A superior bull can serve as many as 1,400 cows a year, and he is much more likely than an ordinary bull to sire good milkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Vanishing Bull | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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