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...crack of the whip and the encouraging cries of Driver Bill Shearer: "Pick it up! Pick it up!" The dogs were near the end of the third and decisive race of the New England sled-dog championship at Jaffrey, N.H. last week. More important, they were close to chow time. And then, plunk in the middle of the snowy road, Driver Shearer saw a sight that chilled his spine: a cat, lazily sunning itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving the Dogs | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...getting married. The appropriate place was Davos, scene of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, where Dave had learned his skiing as a youngster. Their honeymoon included a trip West last summer, where Andy stayed in ski shape by heaving huge grain sacks, breaking a mare, and cooking chow for all hands at a Porcupine Gulch (Wyo.) ranch. Andy's admiring father-in-law, Laudy Lawrence, retired European manager for MGM, calls her a "regular hillbilly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: She Skis for Fun | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...killing of men was accompanied by the perversion of souls. >A 20-year-old student, Chow Ying-fu by name, whose father had been executed last month as a counterrevolutionary, last week in the journal of the South China United University at Canton expressed his feelings about the event. He sounded like a character from George Orwell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Kill Nice! | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Harkness Commons has two serving lines so it will not resemble an army chow line, students learned at a Dunster House Forum last night. The choice between two food lines breaks veterans' associations with the old army life and avoids crowding, architects felt when they designed the Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Forum Discusses Graduate Center, College Buildings | 4/20/1951 | See Source »

...beds. The mess hall for each company consisted of a leanto, two large pots, a meat ax, a couple of knives and some ladles. Bread and bean soup, liberally dosed with olive oil, is the main diet. Yet no one ever hears a Greek soldier complaining of the chow. Most of the men never had it so good. Corporal Elias Papadopoulos is a 25-year-old farmer from the island of Chios, a veteran of the Vitsi and Grammos campaigns. I asked him if he thought the Greek army had improved. Said he: "Sir, the Greek army is good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: ANTI-COMMUNIST DEFENSE IN THE BALKANS | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

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