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March 03, 1980
Fiction
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A Time to Speak [ABSTRACT]
- Twice in his life, writer has found himself asking naive questions in the presence of experts. The first time, he was with 3 agriculturalists, livestock breeders on an international scale. During a pause in their highly technical conversation, he heard himself asking like a 4-year-old, "Why are bullsO…
February 24, 1951
Fiction
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The Black Arab [ABSTRACT]
- Mrs. Carstairs, a widow in her middle thirties, lived at the other end of the English village where the writer had his farm. She advised him on cattle buying and breeding. When she went through the town she often led one of her bulls on a walk. The streets cleared…
May 17, 1993
Shouts & Murmurs
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SWISH! [ABSTRACT]
- SHOUTS AND MURMURS about the 79-foot basketball shot made by 23-year-old Don Calhoun of Bloomington, Illinois, who was picked at random out of the stands before a Chicago Bulls-Miami Heat NBA game and given a one-time-only chance to throw a basketball from one foul…
January 17, 1959
Comment
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Comment. [ABSTRACT]
- Comment on a man who has property on Long Island, & recently went out there to sell the place, but came back without having done so. He had gone to the house to have a last look around and, opening the gate, had been greeted by two bull calves, which…
January 08, 1927
The Talk of the Town
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Family Pride [ABSTRACT]
- Lawrence Smith Butler, patron of Smithtown, has ordered a statue of a bull to be set up in a park he is giving the town, and this is the story of the bull: When the founder of the Smith family settled there, he had some trouble with the Indians and…
June 19, 1926
The Talk of the Town
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"Bulls" [ABSTRACT]
- Mr. Alexander P. Moore talking to Spanish grandee, who was bull fancier. Spaniard said "You Americans have greatest skyscrapers in world, etc., but you haven't the greatest matador." Mr. Moore, who was Ambassador to Court of Spain, said "We have. Our Matador has killed more bulls than all yours put…
October 31, 1994
The Talk of the Town
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The Story of A Shopping Hound [ABSTRACT]
- TALK story about taking a pit bull-Dalmatian named Daisy to various upscale stores. On a Saturday night at the Animal Medical Center, on East Sixty-second Street, the writer read in Pethouse magazine an article entitled "Shopping with Your Dog." It listed various Upper East Side stores that welcome…
