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...last roll in the mellow Cambridge clover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C- FEVER | 9/25/1935 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, Chiropodist Edward Joseph Girard, 51, announced that his six-year standing offer of $100 to anyone who would find an eight-leaf clover was no longer valid, that he had just awarded the prize to himself. Still standing is Chiropodist Girard's offer of $500 for a nine-leaf clover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Clover | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

Claiming the title of "Clover-Collecting Champion of the World," Chiropodist Girard in 20 years has found hundreds of four-leafers, scores of fivers and sixers, about a dozen seven-leafers. He likes to start a day in the country with a good two hours of clover hunting, between 7 and 9 a. m. when he finds conditions most suitable. His eight-leaf clover was discovered on the grounds of the Pleasant View Christian Science Home at Concord...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Clover | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...said Champion Girard, "the gardener and I, and in no time at all I found three five-leaf plants. I had them dug up and presented them to the home. It was the day Will Rogers was laid to rest, and I suggested they call them the Will Rogers clovers. The eight-leaf clover I have placed between slides of glass. I plan to have the whole thing mounted in gold and displayed at Franklin Institute if they will claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Clover | 9/23/1935 | See Source »

...alone, though the bottom had dropped out of the rubber market, his plantation was closed down and there was no job waiting for him. But the island was still there, and so was his brown woman. Piet went native with a will, and died not in harness but in clover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Dutchman | 5/20/1935 | See Source »

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