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...Royal Film Performance in London this fall, Queen Elizabeth II faced a scrawny, sharp-featured young man with shaggy blond hair lying like a bunch of damp seaweed across his forehead. How, the Queen asked, did he like movie work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piltdown Poppa | 12/30/1957 | See Source »

...from the rest of his fellows, his aristocratic tendencies served to widen the gulf. He took private rooms at No. 16 Winthrop Street, a house which stood at the northeast corner of the present IAB. He did this for two reasons--his health was still not perfect, and only damp first-floor rooms were available in the Yard; and he liked seclusion for working on his natural history specimens and his historical writing. Even though friends sought to bring him into student society, he retained his private rooms throughout his college years...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Theodore Roosevelt at Harvard | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

Silence hung like a damp rag over the bar; George impaled one lima bean on a toothpick and examined...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Vegetable Generation | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...rings the loudest--at the moment it was the Salvation Army's turn out in front of the Harvard Trust. Rain was coming down steadily and the Army bellringer was too for out on the sidewalk to get much protection from the bank's shelter. He huddled in his damp uniform and rang loudly to keep warm...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Hark the Herald | 12/11/1957 | See Source »

...damp victory kept the Lions running well toward the front in the race for professional football's Western Conference championship. And even the Lions' veteran (30) Quarterback Bobby Layne. the man with the golden arm. admits that it is such defensive experts as Schmidt that keep the competition close. "Everyone is using a four-three defense* now," explains Layne. "And from the four-three they can do anything. Say the four linemen rush you -then you've got seven men in the secondary, and you've really got to pinpoint your passes. Or they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man Against the Poppers | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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