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...puffs a bearded, slightly paunchy fellow in a yellow t-shirt. He reaches the cairn that marks the top, looks around for a few seconds, then squats and pulls a joint out of his pocket. And asks, pleasantly, "Wanna get high...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: High on Life | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell was a child's delight, full of games and good spirits and tall tales. As the Pied Piper of Cairn Voel, his country retreat on the Cornwall coast, he used to lead his young followers on hunts for the ingredients of a special home brew-a concoction of stagnant water, mold, dead leaves, old grass and whatever other unsavories could be dredged up at the moment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pleasure Principia | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

...iron cross in a cairn was a summit, beneath this

Author: By Martin Errer, | Title: No Headline | 1/21/1970 | See Source »

...Hans Hofmann. Her much-sought-after work is in several U.S. museums, including Manhattan's Modern Art and the Whitney. She usually works more slowly than she did on her TIME commission, will spend as much as three months on a single piece in the company of her cairn terrier, Trolli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Mar. 3, 1967 | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...very sorry for the duck," said a zoo spokesman, "but it is rather heartening for us to see Goldie get a good square meal." Goldie had in fact made an earlier stab at food in the form of Dusty, a Cairn terrier ambling with his mistress through the park, but Dusty fought the eagle to a draw. A snow goose would have fared less well had not spectators driven Goldie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Flying Symbol | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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