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...last week Bracken Lee, who still has a dedicated personal following, announced his candidacy as a write-in independent, a move sure to cut into Clyde's Republican vote next month. Result of the Republican split: Democrat Romney was transformed from dead pigeon into an ominous Utah sea gull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTAH: From Pigeon to Sea Gull | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...vast, 28,000-mile system of waterways. For Southerners it is a chief reason for the greatest boom in Gulf Coast history. As one rhapsodic Texan put it: "A shining strand linking together the jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Intracoastal Waterway | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...best-informed people on recent developments in dramatic activity here is Stephen A. Aaron '57, who has directed such successes as last year's The Sea Gull and Threepenny Opera and this season's Death of a Salesman. Aaron believes that the unexpected success of last year's Threepenny Opera, given by the Lowell House Opera Society, was the turning point--the signal which opened the way for the present burst of activity...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr. and Bernard M. Gwertzman, S | Title: Revived Dramatics Activity Parallels Theatre Interest | 4/25/1956 | See Source »

...Logan Airport on day last June, a Lockheed F-94B jet fighter blew apart during takeoff. Flight mechanics were baffled until, in the engine wreckage, they found the charred carcass of a seagull. Sucked into the left air scoop as the fighter rose from the runway, the gull's body broke a fuel line, causing an excess amount of gasoline to spurt into the engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birds in the Air | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

Society & the Sea Gull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1955 | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

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