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...Flipper. When Sandy came home to his little blue house down on the Florida Keys one day, his mother asked him what that look on his face meant. "There's an eight-foot dying dolphin in the fish pen," said Sandy. Sure enough, there in the pen was Flipper, with a scuba diver's spear stuck in him. "Get me a knife and the iodine," said Mom. Before long Flipper was cavorting, grinning, dancing on his tail, laughing a porpoise laugh that sounded something like a very old automobile starting on a very cold day-ugga-ugga-ugga...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lassie with Fins | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...while, Sandy and Flipper have wonderful fun playing together, but Sandy neglects his chores, and when Daddy (TV's Chuck Connors) comes home on his fishing boat, he makes Sandy turn Flipper loose. Soon after that, when Sandy and Daddy are trying to catch fish and bringing up nothing but empty nets, Flipper torpedoes up to the boat with a big smile on his face. Flipper leads them to a whole school of pompano, and Daddy is very happy. Next day Flipper jumps into the fish pen and gobbles up all the pompano, and Daddy is very unhappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lassie with Fins | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...molecular reaction to revert back to the beginning of man (evolution) or the beginning of life itself known to this earth. If we came originally from sea life and transcended to the parts of the earth (dry land) on which we now live, could it not be that the flipper-like growths that resemble seal flippers could be molecular reaction returning to the original form of life or life where fins and flippers were used for propulsion...

Author: By Dean Neigh, | Title: Fama Semper Vivat | 11/10/1962 | See Source »

Hamburger College. Before opening for business, licensees must spend 3½ weeks at McDonald's "Hamburger College" in Chicago, where, with the aid of such gadgets as an automatic patty flipper, they master the technique of cooking up to 36 hamburgers at a time. Textbook is the 81-page McDonald's Manual, which specifies every operation in detail, e.g., hamburgers must be locally purchased "commercial" grade chuck (fat content 17% to 20%), formed into 1.6-oz. patties 3⅝ in. in diameter. Each is to be garnished with ¼ oz. onions, one teaspoon of mustard, one tablespoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Meat, Potatoes & Money | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...little cactus-covered volcanic rock island of Ustica, off the northern coast of Sicily, was the scene last week of the 3rd International Underwater Convention, drawing 500 flipper-snapping, snorkel-bearing aquaphiles. The convention marked the emergence of a brand-new tourist resort, for until two years ago, Ustica existed almost entirely as a prison island; now Italian tourist agencies and promoters have dubbed it the "Underwater Capital of the World," are busy publicizing it as the new Capri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: New Capri? | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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