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...Made up of local oddities, the panel includes a love triangle composed of artist, wife, and rival. When the question of marriage is raised, these three breaks up the show, washing the soiled linen of their marriage in public, while Sim tries unsuccessfully to shift the discussion to bottle-flys and cows...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Folly To Be Wise | 5/26/1954 | See Source »

Unless a Princetonian is a campus functionary or a married veteran he either walks, rides a bicycle, or flys. Since the early thirties, Princeton has banned undergraduates form having ears and no immediate changes in this rulling is forthcoming from Nassau Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cars Banned for Most Nassau Men | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...sizzling rare cuts" so amply provided at this hour of the rationing program? Perhaps the most beneficial expense of this ridiculous show was the test of DDT, which suggests to the rest of us bourgeoisie that if we keep plugging, at least we won't have to swat flys any more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 1, 1945 | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Each week air-minded Bob LeTourneau flys some 4,000 miles around the country in one of his planes to hold gospel meetings. Often he takes along a quartet of gospel singers and a soprano. Philanthropoid LeTourneau backs up his evangelistic zeal with the $13,000,000 LeTourneau Foundation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Wings for Missionaries | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

...against the trade wind that blows off the Pacific. To keep the wind out at the west entrances, blue-eyed, sandy-haired Architect Ernest Weihe, fussing around with an electric fan, feathers and a cardboard model, devised "wind baffles"-a series of 80-foot vertical slabs placed like converging flys on a stage, with open passages to left and right between them. The clean monumentality of this effect was also used to set off Sculptor Ralph Stackpole's heroic-sized statue, Pacifica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Pacific Pageant | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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