A steer can neither be a father nor give milk. A steer is just beef on the hoof. But last week at the International Livestock Exposition in cattle-wise Chicago, one chunky little black hornless steer brought $7,835, making its steaks and loins worth about $12 per lb. This steer was Lucky Strike, an Aberdeen-Angus,† grand champion of the show. Elliott Brown, 20, of Rose Hill, Iowa, who raised Lucky Strike, said he would use his prize and auction money to lift the mortgage on his father’s farm, to go to college. Read More...
Carolyn Drake for TIMEMartha Karolyi in the old gym
ESCAPE FROM ROMANIA
Trim and perennially tan, Karolyi, 69, was not originally a fan of moving from Houston to the more rural woods of New Waverly, (“I still hear the word boonies three times a day,” says her husband, whose idea it was to add ranching to his gymnastics-coaching duties). She now uses the expansive ranch as an outdoor gym, walking about 8 km without fail every day, in a circuit that loops around a lake dug by her husband and past hectares of pasture for the cattle that roam the property. Read More...
In the early 1970s, if you’d walked through midtown Manhattan at Christmastime, you might have happened upon Hallmark’s flagship store. The flashy displays would have stretched out before you, each designed by different celebrities to promote their various products. And one display in particular would likely have caught your eye, if only for its simplicity.
A small pine tree, shorn of lights and ornamentation and about the height of a child, stood encased in clear acrylic so its roots would show in the soil. Read More...
