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Introduction of new officers, awards, and a round of games on the Quadrangle featured Radcliffe's annual A.A. Field Day program yesterday, though to half a hundred 'Cliffedwellers, the biggest athletic event of the afternoon consisted of twisting platefuls of spaghetti around a small wooden fork at the Field House supper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Makes Athletic Awards | 5/5/1948 | See Source »

...home, to Rockefeller Center in his black Cadillac, and play practical jokes on his family and friends. Once he arranged to have a rubber knife put at his wife's place at a dinner party, was furious when she found the meat tender enough to cut with a fork, and didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Perfectionist | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...father of 12 children. Randolph McCoy was 20 years older, tall, kindly, broad-shouldered, with sullen grey eyes and a full beard and mustache. He had 13 children. Devil Anse built his cabin on the edge of West Virginia, at a point where Peter Creek flows into Tug Fork. Across the Tug in Kentucky, up Blackberry Creek to Hatfield Branch, then up the steep mountain slopes to the ridge at Turkeyfoot-seven or eight miles-was Randolph McCoy's cabin. The land between was battleground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Folk Feud | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Round Peg. In Memphis, Dill Pickle quit his job in a grocery store and went back home to Rolling Fork, Miss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

West Virginia's New River rose 30 feet above its normal level, swept scores of houses and other buildings into the Bluestone Dam basin. At Clarksburg, W.Va., the West Fork River rose to its highest stage since 1888. A 10-ft. levee collapsed at Crowder, Miss. The raging Duck River split the town of Columbia, Tenn. in half; Columbians were evacuated from their homes by the Red Cross and the National Guard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEATHER: No End | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

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