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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...maps of fortifications, with Latin notations in the margins, and hid them under the inner soles of his shoes. Just how he was captured is unknown, but one story put it that he was recognized by a Tory relative as he sat in Rachael Chichester's tavern ("Mother Chick's"), and betrayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Death of a Yaleman | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Pickett thinks of these matches to come and some of his stand-out of the past--Captains Johnny Lee, Chick Chandlar, and Ken Culbert--and repeats, "there's no glory to wrestling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pickett Nears Five-Year Mark as Mat Coach | 2/25/1955 | See Source »

...Remembrances of my boyhood were brought back to me by your quoting of the recollections of the Hon. George Leader's father, Mr. Guy Leader. He reminisced as to how he had to assist in poultry husbandry of the baby chicks and "to remove tapeworms from their throats by the use of a hair from the tail of a horse [TIME, Nov. 15]." Like him, I too often watched my mother perform a similar operation, [but] the only parasite my dear Republican mother was ever able to extract from the chick's throat was gapeworms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 13, 1954 | 12/13/1954 | See Source »

...rest of Cornell's first five consists of Chick Trayford, Paul Loberg, Mike Browne, and Don Farley. Last year when Cornell scored 53 points to Army's 60 and the Crimson's 62, Farley placed seventh and Trayford thirteenth...

Author: By Bernard M. Gwertzman, | Title: Cornell Harriers Favored To Win Heptagonal Crown | 11/5/1954 | See Source »

...good news for shoppers was bad news for poultry-and-eggmen; there are too many chickens and eggs. Monthly chick output has soared to around 100 million from 91 million a year ago, and the farmers are getting only 24.8? a lb. for broilers compared to the postwar average of 31.1?. Monthly egg production is up to a record 4,545,000,000, some 15% above the postwar average, while farmers' prices dropped to an average 37.4? a dozen, from 50.2? a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Too Many Chickens | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

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