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Boston traditionally lives on beans and codfish. But the wails that Massachusetts Congressman John McCormack heard were not for the bean and the cod. Boston voters wanted red meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Politics of Meat | 10/7/1946 | See Source »

...black drums of kerosene, and the mystical contortions of two-year-olds in a sand-box. Spirited undergraduates wearing white wool sweater and mouse-colored sneakers, and frothing for a furious afternoon of net-play, are apt to find nothing more athletic at Jarvis than a slow set of Bean-Bag with a law student's heir. And not only are there law students' heirs. There are law students' wives. There are biologists' wives, and spouses and issue of veteran students from most of the University's departments, including undergraduates. When the University opened the project last April, preference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 7/5/1946 | See Source »

Rich Response. In Chicago, Zoo Director Bean published an appeal for twelve live bedbugs to round out his collection of invertebrates, fortnight later found himself fighting off 1,000 sent by helpful U.S., Canadian and Mexican donors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 24, 1946 | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...this is good old Boston The home of the bean and the cod, Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots And the Cabots talk only to God. -John Collins Bossidy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Old Empire, New Prince | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...pitchers' pen, the Yankees had only one good prewar model, big Spud Chandler, who could be counted on for heavy duty. But just when three ambitious rivals thought they had uncovered the Yankees' soft spot, the Yanks suddenly uncovered two whizzbang rookies- string-bean (6 ft. 2½) Clarence Marshall and deadpan Randy Gumpert -in spring training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Yanks & the Cards | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

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