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Just a few short blocks away from Harvard University's refined Commencement Week exercises, Charles River fish and herring gulls are waging the age-old battle for survival with savage brutality...

Author: By Joan Neary, | Title: Commencement Means Beginning Of End for Charles River Fish | 6/10/1959 | See Source »

...filled with wheeling, screaming gulls; and the river, its banks, and bridges, are littered with the gulls' victims: the rotting corpses of thousands of herring, catfish, and eels...

Author: By Joan Neary, | Title: Commencement Means Beginning Of End for Charles River Fish | 6/10/1959 | See Source »

...bodies but has sold four of the school's five bathtubs. Boating and riding are advertised in the school brochure. But the boat is a suicidally leaky scow, and riding is discontinued when the resident donkey drops dead and is carved to vary the diet of congealed herring and paste porridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crazy Mixed-Up Cad | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

This only reminded her friends of her constant complaints. "Portman was just a red herring," said one Hayes intimate. "The trouble was between Kim and Helen." Old Pro Hayes was sorely tried by the Method in Kim's acting. "I don't feel like being touched tonight," said Kim before one performance, and so a tender mother-and-daughter scene was played without a caress. Another time, Helen Hayes was quoted as saying, "I got two elbows down my throat from the girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: One Touch of . . . | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Miss Grant also denied Miss Perry's charges concerning the IPC, labelling them as a "red herring." Markman added, "In my recent visit to the IPC in Vienna I found the discussions democratically conducted, with no Communist control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Festival Organizations Fight Over Affiliations | 3/21/1959 | See Source »

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