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In the Eliot-Kirkland game, Charley Cabot scored the first Elephant touchdown midway through the first period on a quarterback sneak from the five yard line. Dick Hinds, who kicked the extra point, tallied again for Eliot in the second period when a sustained running attack brought the Mastodons from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Wins Again; Hutch Band Spurs Team to Victory | 11/2/1950 | See Source »

A Los Angeles jury listened to British Ballerina Brenda Julier's charges that Cinemactor Sabu ("Elephant Boy") Dastagir, 26, was the father of her two-year-old daughter, heard the defense sum up: "Sabu is not an ordinary movie star, not an ordinary person. He's a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

A lone California Elephant Seal stands at the right of the entrance to the Zoological Museum. His epitaph reads: "the species has been reduced through persecutions, as it yields rich oil . . ." A Siberian Sea Otter looks out from the next glass case. "This species is now on the verge of...

Author: By Thomas C. Wheeler, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/27/1950 | See Source »

Art was everywhere except underfoot. It hung from trees and on bushes, on fences and around a swimming pool. Chartered buses covered the shows with a grueling ten-hour tour. Mexican dancers, Negro-spiritual singers, Hollywood starlets and a borrowed elephant livened the proceedings. The artists themselves hovered near at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Place in the Sun | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

No Safety. In his fast-paced, easy-to-read The Other Side of the Bottle, Anderson calls himself a "dry drunkard." He says: "I know that if I live to be as old as an elephant, I shall never be able to take a drink in safety." Technically, there is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Dry Drunkard | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

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