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...WILLIAM BUNION Harrington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 5, 1958 | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...nothing stops you." He has grand plans for future races in Chicago, St. Louis and New York, but there is a lot of pedaling ahead before the six-day whirl to nowhere comes back from the limbo that has swallowed marathon dances, flagpole sitting, bunion derbies and other rowdy remnants of sport's daffier days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Whirl to Nowhere | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...health was something like standing in shallow water and trying to feel a whale's pulse. There was room for all, and last week doctors were crowding alongside by the scores, prodding with their stethoscopes, waving hastily scribbled prescription blanks, and bitterly berating each other as quacks, bunion choppers, herb cooks and barbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Doctors' Dilemma | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

...narrow passage that police maintained for them. Paris' Avenue des Champs Elysées was so jammed that it looked like Liberation Day. The first postwar revival of the Tour de France was under way. The 26-day-long, 2,900-mile bike race-a kind of Bunion Derby on wheels-is France's most avidly followed sporting event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Derby on Wheels | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

When the summer moon is full and the tide is high, the grunion run in Southern California. The grunion (rhymes with bunion) are small (6-in.), smelt-like fish. Unique among marine life, they ride the surf onto sandy beaches, there to spawn and quickly go away again. The female dances on her tail, drilling a hole into the sand for her eggs, while the male flops wildly about her. The next full breaker covers the roe with sand, washes the grunion back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: When the Grunion Run | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

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