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...said his name was George, and he had a beard. He seemed to be a Leader, for the others listened to his words, and nodded when he paused. After a mustard tomato on rye with a dash of carrot sauce, he loosened up and began to speak...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Vegetable Generation | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

George snapped a carrot-stick in two. "We are the generation of tranquilizers and mushroom clouds, grunion hunters and men's magazines. We are born, we go to college, and then what? In the age of surrealistic art, in the butt-end semantics of Joyce and the discordant lilt of Stravinsky we are somehow yet conservative. We stand marking time, unimpressed, hands skin-deep in mental hip pockets...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Vegetable Generation | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...After Yale had refused to guarantee him a steady diet of such dishes as sunflower seeds and carrot juice, Australia's Olympic Swimming Champ Murray Rose, 18, a resolute vegetarian, decided to sample higher education elsewhere, perhaps at the University of Southern California. "At U.S.C. they are willing to feed me whatever I want," explained Rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 15, 1957 | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Good as Gold and what could be better? A new perhaps comedy written by John Patrick. Roddy Mcdowell, Paul Ford, Zero Mostel, and a carrot seem to be starred. Opens tonight at the Schubert...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEEKEND EVENTS | 2/16/1957 | See Source »

Sprinter Bobby Joe Morrow, 21, who grew up on a lazy little cotton and carrot farm outside San Benito, Texas, glided down the cinder straightaway with such easy grace that he seemed to be running no faster than he had to. It was fast enough to win the 100-meter dash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faster, Higher, Farther | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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