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...similiar to the Harlow squad. For the key quarterback position Boston has a couple of old warhorses in Bucky "The Toe" Harrison and Frank Miklos. Miklos was injured early in practice this fall but is now approaching the form which won him a Varsity berth in 1946. Bucky flits bark and forth from the Varsity and Jayvee squads because of his utility as a placekicker, passer and ballhandler...

Author: By Robert Carswell, | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/10/1947 | See Source »

...that those who can count more dogs among their friends than cats," wrote Actor James Mason in a felicitous thesis for the New York Times, "lean more also toward doglike characteristics in their human friends. They like hearty extraverts and children-people, in fact, who wag their tails and bark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Oct. 6, 1947 | 10/6/1947 | See Source »

...ducks do not have much sense, a dog's bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Quack Farmer Trouble | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

Relaxing in your room while you listen to a lecture has become a reality due to the current series of Lowell Institute Lectures. Substituting the microphone for the platform bark, the Institute broadcasts eight programs each week over five Boston stations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Institute Takes to Air Dial Twist Cuts Off Professor | 7/11/1947 | See Source »

Last year, with Phil as executive vice president, the company's gross sales from forest products were $66,271,996, its net income $12,995,478. This year, earnings are "slightly ahead" of last year. Eventually, Phil expects that his new bark byproducts will add $10,000,000 a year to his gross business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUMBER: More Than the Squeal | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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