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After a good natured warning about a wrist hold ("Don't get carried away now; but if you ever have to use it, give a good jerk and pop, it breaks."), an instructor demonstrated the evening's final highlight, the Boston Crab. The heels eventually join the head with obvious consequences. Everyone smiled appreciatively...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Nishimoto Style | 11/2/1955 | See Source »

...Deep Sleep. In Baltimore, Charles Brogdon, 57, was arrested for drunkenness after he went to sleep on a garbage heap, was covered with layers of crab shells and cabbage leaves, picked up by a mechanical scooper, dropped into a garbage truck, carted to the city dump, where, at long last, he woke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...junior varsity race, stroke John Hadik's boat was about a length behind Princeton with 30 strokes left when the Tiger stroke caught a crab. Before the Princeton eight recovered its balance the jayvees had shot past them to score the Crimson's only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger Crew Defeats Varsity 150's for Cup | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...pitched his scorn at the Sun's twelve editorial writers. They became, to their surprise, a major campaign issue as "the nine old men in the ivory tower" and "the cowardly nine residing in the dark corners of Baltimore county"-meaning the suburbs. At precinct meetings and campaign crab feasts, beaming Tommy D'Alesandro poked fun at the Sun. "No newspaper,'' cried he, "will boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: Big-Leaguer | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...junior varsity race M. I. T. and the Crimson battled for first while Dartmouth fell a length and one half behind. At the mile, a crab on the port side slowed the Tech shell. That made the difference as Crimson stroke John Hadik moved his boat ahead by a quarter length finishing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Navy, MIT Beat Crimson 150 Crew As Junior Varsity, Yardlings Win | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

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