Word: browing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Where the desert abruptly broke and dropped down a pitted, 40-foot slope to a lower plain, the scout cars had to stop. But the horses did not. Over the brow of the slope, down the sandy ridge they leaped and slid. All along the ridge poured a river of men & horses, breaking at the edge, spilling downward and riding on. Half a mile beyond, they clustered again. Riflemen dismounted, jerked guns from holsters. Machine-gunners ripped at their packs, vanished into the brush with the guns. Within five minutes the squadron was deployed for battle, the horses had disappeared...
Finally Judge Yule stepped forward, patted "Sargo's" flank. The crowd gave a whoop of delight. Yule mopped his brow and crammed a cigar into his mouth. He was later heard to declare: "I think maybe the Hereford had a little more cover on the loin...
...lovely brow...
Musicraft, an outfit which hitherto specialized in high-brow discs, got into the chain-store trade by merest chance. Last summer Eli Oberstein's U. S. Record Corp. (TIME, Feb. 19) petitioned for reorganization. Its record-pressing plant, in Scranton, Pa., was owned by Scranton industrialists, who extricated it from the U. S. corporate setup. Musicraft saw its chance, contracted with the Scranton group to press the anonymous Masterpiece recordings...
...horses for the doggy and horsy set. Sculptress Harrah's deft statuettes (of such equestrian nobility as Seabiscuit, Challedon and Jadaan, the grey stallion ridden by the late Rudolph Valentino in The Son of the Sheik) excited horse-& dog-lovers, also brought high marks from many a high-brow art critic. Daughter of a gentleman rancher who founded the town of Harrah, Wash., June Harrah also likes animals better than people, rates the race-tracky smell of Absorbine Jr. (used to rub down horses) higher than My Sin. Because well-heeled horse and dog owners like to have portraits...