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Abdominal Mouth. One day when Tom was nine years old his father brought home some hot chowder in a beer bucket. Thinking it was beer, Tom took a swig, burned his esophagus so badly that the doctors could not keep it open as it healed. So for 47 years Tom has fed himself through an opening surgeons made in his abdominal wall. He chews his food, then spits it into a funnel attached to a rubber tube which runs through the opening to his stomach. A sensitive, self-respecting little man, with a peppery Irish temper, Tom has kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tom's Stomach | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...Harvard intramural program gets going, the 4-platoon Specialists League will select an all-star group to represent our section of Harvard-at-war. Meanwhile, the aforementioned 1st Platoon (also known as the Left Bank Chapter of the Charles River Tombstone Carvers' and Trolley Motormen's Marching and Chowder Association, Especially Marching) is currently leading the Specialists League by virtue of having whaled the blithering daylights out of each of the other three clubs last week...

Author: By George M. Avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/30/1943 | See Source »

...Michael Mullins Chowder & Marching Society will hold its first war time meeting at 2100 tomorrow night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Michael Mullins | 7/23/1943 | See Source »

Queer Fish. To teach people to enjoy kinds of fish now thrown back into the sea or ground into fertilizer, the Government is publishing Wartime Fish Cookery. It contains recipes for shark steak, skate chowder, the plentiful but oily menhaden, the humble but edible alewife, the delicious ocean pout, of which Massachusetts fisheries have recently sold huge quantities. Whale meat (red but fishy) was sold in Boston during the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Food Front | 3/8/1943 | See Source »

...shortage of shillelahs, the Michael Mullins Chowder & Marching Society will be unable to participate in the pre-game parade to Harvard Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yes, We Have No Shillelaghs | 10/24/1942 | See Source »

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