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...indeed. There are thousands of 'its' one can do, but you won't think of them. You could drive down to Gloucester and catch a dolphin, and then put it on your mantle piece with an apple in its mouth. Or you could go to Franklin Park Zoo and watch the seals, they swim all night. But you won't, the House dances are much closer and everyone is going...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Stab the Paper Dragon | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

Disk jockeys go about their labors beside the building's dolphin-shaped pool, which tails off into the lobby. (Late-arriving employees often enter by way of the diving board.) Station engineers are given to dressing in an ugly, hairy-ape costume and dashing about with another WAPEster in hot pursuit, brandishing a rifle. On calmer days, a costume ape may stalk out to the highway to thumb a ride. Even WAPE's checks are decorated with the simian image-along with a brief message from the keepers: "We will welcome your saving this check as a souvenir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Gone Ape | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...needed display of depth, untouted junior Bill Rose and sophomore Dave Ottaway swept first and second place in the 50 yd. free-style. Bill Schellsteade, a frog-kicker, scored another surprising first in the 200 yd. butterfly in 2:32.2 against dolphin-kicking Nitton Jervey. Hunter, after swimming in the relay, went on to take the 100 yd. free-style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimmers Triumph, 61-25, Over Weak Princeton Team | 2/24/1959 | See Source »

None of Author Goudge's work seems labored; she writes with the spontaneity of a child. Goudge fans think that in her earlier novels-Green Dolphin Street, Pilgrim's Inn-she has already excelled herself, but The White Witch suggests that she has still not reached her peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Play, Gypsies! | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

...effectively fires the powder train of the imagination in excerpts from such classics as Shakespeare and the Bible, but confirmed audiles can find plenty of esoteric items, ranging from a cozy chat with a prostitute ("It's no kind of life for anybody") in Cast the First Stone (Dolphin) to the singsong incantations of drugged natives ("Chjon nka sikjane-nia tso'') in the Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico (Folkways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

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