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...long underwear and tape. One hefty yardling won the game for Harvard, however, when he dashed onto the field of action and stole the football, bringing the initiation to an abrupt finish. An effort to continue the game, substituting a gander for the ball, was foiled when the fowl fled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Upholds Crimson Honor in Winning 'Battle of the Big Drum' | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

Died. Roland H. Clark, 83, author (Gunner's Dawn, Stray Shots) and hunter-artist whose realistic etchings, watercolors and oil paintings of wild fowl made him a favorite with sportsmen; in Norwalk, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 29, 1957 | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...stanch the bleeding. One surgeon would hold a clamp on a blood vessel while another passed the suture silk around it, deftly tying knots. With ribs and breastbone now lying bare, Bailey chose which bones to cut, called "rib shears." A scrub nurse handed him a device like fowl shears with offset handles. With firm pressure of powerful hands. Bailey himself snipped the breastbone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Surgery's New Frontier | 3/25/1957 | See Source »

...Petrovs' book describes in detail the life of the higher Soviet bureaucracy: by a paradox, the egalitarian theory of Communism has produced a pathologically heightened sense of status-so that life in the embassy went on by rules something like the pecking hierarchy observed by barnyard fowl. Mrs. Petrov got into hot water for having put a comic picture within eyeshot of Stalin's portrait, and even hotter water when she was falsely accused of having thrown a pie at the ambassador's wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Notes from Downunderground | 2/11/1957 | See Source »

Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man of Aran | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

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