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The Leverett softball team staged a last inning rally, scoring six runs to topple Eliot, 9 to 8. Jim Ross, Bunny ace, had to come on in the late stages to preserve the win. Major Close and Harry Giles paced the Elephant attack, Close walloping a big home run.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Clinches Straus Trophy On Baseball Victory Over Eliot | 5/25/1950 | See Source »

A gravel-voiced barker describes the 1950 Circus as "indescribable, incalculable, and uncomparable." This is not true. The circus is very describable and sort of comparable. It is, however, improbable. A crocodile-skinned man married to a bearded lady is improbable; a Polar Bear skidding down a slide is improbable...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: THE CIRCUSGOER | 5/12/1950 | See Source »

On Kumbh Day, April 13, at 3:48 p.m., the day and time calculated by astrologers as most auspicious for bathing, the pool was reserved for holy men (Sadhus). It took the 15,000 Sadhus three hours to march down the three-mile route to the water. Most wore saffron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Urn Festival | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

Sixty or more countries celebrated World Health Day last week. No bugles blared to mark the second birthday of the United Nations' World Health Organization. But in Terai, in the far-off foothills of the Himalayas, members of a WHO team journeyed by elephant from village to village, crawled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The World's Health | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

Atlanta zoo three weeks ago, Atlanta's Forsyth Street at once became the scene of a spectacular elephant hunt. On Forsyth Street stand the modern plants of the morning Atlanta Constitution and its evening rival, the Atlanta Journal. Coca had barely stopped kicking when the Journal, biggest paper in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Merging the Elephants | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

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