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After that, bantam-sized (5 ft. 5 in.) Bev Osborne always served his chicken in the rough. The customers got no silverware, just fingerbowls. They liked it so much that Osborne kept expanding his Oklahoma City restaurant (it now seats 1,100) and built two more. He also trademarked the name Chicken in the Rough, and began licensing other restaurants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SMALL BUSINESS: Out of the Rough | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

This figure (6 BEV) has a thrilling, musical ring to the ears of nuclear physicists. The 184-inch cyclotron at Berkeley generates only about 350 MEV (million electron volts). With this comparatively puny force, it creates mesons, the mysterious particles knocked out of matter by cosmic rays from space. The new cyclotron will give its protons so much energy that they will act like the "primary" cosmic rays themselves, which slam through the earth's atmosphere and plunge deep into the ground. These wild invaders from space have never before been caged in laboratories. No one can guess what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: 6 BEV | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...gayest and most exciting story of the week came from Jim Christy when he rolled his entire 240 pounds in on Sunday morning. It is supposed to have as one of its main characters a girl, a secretary it seems, who from her exploits reminds us of another secretary, "Bev the Beaver," likewise well-known in local circles for her exploits. Jim promises two shows a night in B-14 until all have heard the full tale...

Author: By Larry Hyde, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 1/23/1945 | See Source »

...long moribund Liberal Party, with its minuscule representation in Parliament (19 members out of 615), "Bev" was indeed a catch. Even the rumored intention of Field Marshal Montgomery to join the Party after the war paled before the presence of Britain's No. 1 social-security expert among the Liberal members. With a general election likely next year, both the Liberal Party and its distinguished recruit firmly believe that Britain is on the eve of a Liberal revival- a genuine interest by the "disillusioned"' middle classes in the Party's progressive program. With pride Party chiefs pointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Bev Wins | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...Junior, received through the mall an extortion note accompanied by a picture of a disrobed female reposing on a bench. "Remember the Rivera or was it Revere?" was the salutation of the letter. The text of the missive was brief--"Five thousand dollars . . . . OR ELSE." The signature was simply "Bev, the clutch," a name feared by the student to be that of a notorious Harvard Square and Huntington Avenue blackmailer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLACKMAIL JOKESTERS HOAX APTED AND LEAHY | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

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