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...oddest celebrations is the Great Gobbler Gallop in Cuero, Texas, a town of 7,000 that raises 200,000 turkeys a year. There, a local fowl named Ruby Begonia disgraced the honor of Texas by losing to a bird named Paycheck from Worthington, Minn. But the gaiety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Season for Taking Stock | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...hundred and seven seconds later, Brown culminated a beautifully mixed series of plays by sending fullback Matt Granger up the middle on a 15-yd. gallop across the goal line...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Gridders Collectively Kiss Sisters, 24-24 | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...voice adds to his performance. It was a shame to see him have to glance up at the conductor (Paul D. Lehrman) in confusion as the musical ensemble fell apart during the finale to Act I. From the opening bars of the overture, Lehrman takes the score at a gallop. He doesn't give the music the time it needs to fester, to spread its fumes; more importantly, the singers couldn't keep up with the pace. (If you want to hear Weill's music in a really atmospheric performance, pick up the old Berlin recording on Odyssey Records...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Threepennys Worth--Barely | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

...fans, all that's left of Wayne Moore's running are the memories of three great plays--against Dartmouth and Brown last year, and his miraculous, driving, 73-yard touchdown gallop in this year's Columbia opener...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Say It Ain't So, P. Wayne | 10/7/1978 | See Source »

...loot, capturing prisoners to ransom, securing bribes in return for mercy shown, and, it would seem, as an excuse to extract additional taxes. Yet the levying mechanism of the emerging nation-state was still not refined. In Paris, for example, heralds on horseback would announce yet another impost, then gallop for their lives. Violent revolts by commoners troubled both France and England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Welcome to Hard Times | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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