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...While three hid, one man walked to a clump .of trees. Loudly he called "Ao! ao! ao!" (Come! come! come!), and began to scatter grain. Rhesus monkeys scrambled down and followed his grain trail. When the monkeys got to the grain in the trap, a hidden operator pulled a cord and meshed them in the netting, an average dozen at a time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Closing in on Polio | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

...community that seems blatantly confident that Spring will come this year. We speak of the Radcliffe girl who cagerly scans the course catalogue, of the young men who plan to install a new freshly-cast bronzes bird atop a malformed Bow Street building, of the Square merchants lifting cord jackets form cardboard crates, and of a certain set of enthusiastic undergraduates who are sure they can talk a large mob into attending a so called all-college weekend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ritual | 2/3/1954 | See Source »

Outboard Starter. Evinrude Motors announced a new 25-h.p. outboard motor with a built-in electric starter to replace the starter cord. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...stunned and his famed forelock was set alight, but he lived to revel in the torture deaths of many of the men who made the plot. So dear to Hitler's baleful eye was the sight of a German general slowly strangling on a slim cord at the end of a meathook that he had a film of the hangings run off for his benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ghosts in Field-Grey | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

Madam, Will You Walk was the last play written by the late Sidney Howard (They Knew What They Wanted, The Silver Cord). It was groomed for Broadway in 1939 but closed out of town. Last week it became the first play offered by the Phoenix Theater, a professional, well-heeled repertory group that, to avoid Broadway costs, will produce on lower Second Avenue. The stars this time are Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 14, 1953 | 12/14/1953 | See Source »

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