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...them as they drove in white coats. There was a letter from real doctors saying that the boy would die if he didn't get to the West Coast to a special clinic in time, and for medical reasons, couldn't fly. It worked. Other entrants dressed in priestly garb, and there were other methods as well. (I knew of one fellow, who although he never heard of this race, went across the country in an ambulance at 110 mph. At one point he got a police escort to the nearest hospital, and managed to lose...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: From Sea To Shining Sea | 4/14/1975 | See Source »

...clerks all dressed in ceremonial garb, ate lunch at the Faculty club as guests of the Boston Theological institute, a consortium, of eight schools including the Harvard Divinity School...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Three Russian Clerics Take in Harvard | 3/1/1975 | See Source »

...commission has come up with a variety of imaginative answers. It has sent town criers in colonial garb through downtown streets to call out the jackpot numbers. A cowboy has attached the winning figures to his saddle and galloped around a central square shouting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Pie in the Sky | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...outstanding number has nothing to do with the world of Mack Sennett. It is a steel-toed tap done with biting, insuperable authority by all of the chorus girls fronted by that svelte-legged veteran Lisa Kirk. The scenes related to Mack are curiously weak. In their inimitable garb, the Kops sashay on-and offstage, but they have absolutely no one to chase. Except for their period beach bloomers the "Bathing Beauties" seem to have been stranded on the tide in the guise of wound-up Radio City Music Hall Rockettes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Reel Sad | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...undeniably a treat to look at Jane Greenwood's 19th-century costumes--the young men's informal garb, jackets slung over their shoulders during the sultry daytime hours; the spruce blue military uniforms with epaulets and fourrageres; the servants' red velvet cutaways at the ball...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Juliet Not Good Enough for Her Romeo | 7/5/1974 | See Source »

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