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While Zoni Williamson, Joe's ancient Negro farmhand, milked some cows, Joe walked out to the farrowing barn that he built while he was still in high school. In one of the six concrete-floored stalls lay a monstrous (upwards of 600 lbs.) Duroc sow with eleven week-old pigs. She gave a grunting roar as Joe eased a trough past her jaws to the floor and filled it with slop from a bucket. Joe worked carefully, talking softly: a sow with new pigs is one of the farm's most dangerous animals, both to humans...
...demand that on the black market it fetched 1 shilling (six times the regular price). Even Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal of England and a steward of the Jockey Club, bought a copy. (He held it as if it were a week-old fish.) Workers' Weakness. Strike or no, the race-track elite could have done worse. Alf Rubin, 38, the Worker's wide-eyed little cockney handicapper, who prints his picks under the name of "Cayton," is the best in the business. Last year, a $2 bet on every...
Jorgensen, despite a week-old cough, held onto his lead until the final turn, when the Elis' ace, Rex Aubrey, overtook him. Yale finished first by half a body length, the Crimson placed second, and Duke Hust brought Dartmouth home only eight tenths of a second later. The Crimson time of 3:28.1 is a Harvard record...
Gunnarm Nielson of Denmark chopped two-tenths of a second off Wes Santee's week-old indoor mile record in the Wanamakor Mile at the Millrace Games on Saturday night. The new record...
...then to give the people enough money to trade at the teahouse, sort of a rustic Hayes-Bick, he tries to establish them in the souvenir business. The troops won't take the trinkets, and the village is forced to resort to the sale of home-brewed, week-old brandy to the island officers' clubs. The brandy business booms and little Tobiki thrives. A teahouse is built. This set, designed by Peter Larkin, is beautifully done, and drew opening-night applause. Larkin's other sets are fairly good. Particularly effective is his use of a bamboo curtain that is raised...