"genentic" and "cowicorn"

[Jim Parish]

Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> "Cowicorn" was a cow with a single horn in the middle of her forehead. She
> was created at the University of Maine (it doesn't say when - I mean, it must
> have been some time in history, right?) by means of a grafting operation in
> heiferhood.

This goes back quite a way; if I remember correctly, Willy Ley mentions it in
_The Lungfish, the Dodo and the Unicorn_, which appears to have been published
in 1952. (I once had a copy, but haven't been able to find it in recent years.)

Jim Parish
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