Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tank of water, the other sinking (after the detergent had been added to the water). This week I received from book publishers William Morrow and Co. an advance copy of a mystery novel, The Case of the Drowning Duck. The jacket shows a duck expiring in a goldfish bowl and has a note from the publishers saying that Erie Stanley Gardner, the author, was inspired by TIME'S item. TIME Marched On, fast...
...Lardner, who sat near him while he was announcing a ball game, to observe that there had been a double-header-the game that was played and the one that McNamee announced. But he had a knack of being breathless, exciting even when describing the hills behind the Rose Bowl, and the fans loved him. At one World Series game, delayed by rain, he cheerfully draped his raincoat over himself and the mike and ad-libbed for 60 minutes in a downpour. Twenty-five million people heard him describe the Tunney-Dempsey long count, the broadcast he was proudest...
Approximately 7,500 seats will be available to the public in the baseball grand stand at the southerly end of Soldiers Field, and ample parking space is located in the football parking field. The public will enter at Gate 6, North Harvard Street, at the Bowl end of the Stadium...
...afternoon the procession continued: East 65th Street to Washington Square, Washington Square to 65th Street. Mrs. Roosevelt carried her prints, two Chinese lamps, a bowl of glass daisies. The vans disgorged their cargoes: an old cane-bottomed rocker that the President likes, a walnut highboy, a high chair, a barrel with a box of soap chips sticking...
Pasadena's Rose Bowl looked like a second-hand auto park. In the chill dawn, 140 battered cars and sagging trucks huddled, piled high with furniture, bundles, gardening tools. At 6:30 a.m. they chuffed and spluttered, wheeled into line, and started rolling. Led by a goggled policeman on a motorcycle, a jeep and three command cars full of newsmen, they headed for the dark, towering mountains to the east...