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Only Bea's presence, a circle like the mouth of a while bell of which her overheard voice was the chiming clapper, promised repose. Hanema remembered her as a calm pool in which he could kneel to the depth of his navel...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: A Keyboard Confessional | 3/6/1975 | See Source »

...tried to sweeten the deal by throwing in some extra performers. First the White House offered Pat as a cheerleader. ("She's got wonderful rhythm," Nixon enthuses. "Just look how she keeps time when I play piano.") But Allen wants no part of a 60-year-old hand clapper...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Petering Out | 11/15/1973 | See Source »

Bedraggled, without hope and apparently out of luck, he decides to answer a casting call. The director, who is Lindsay Anderson, photographs him (a clapper board reads: "O Lucky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Enlightened Mischief | 6/18/1973 | See Source »

...Clapper and Dutch Gainer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPORTS QUIZ ANSWERS | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

According to Vicki G. Clapper, staff landscape architect, all the elms in the Old Yard died around 1900. Sixteen years later, a major reforestation was carried out in which 20 or 25-year-old trees were planted to replace those that had died...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disease Kills Four Trees in Yard | 11/7/1970 | See Source »

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