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...overboiled yam. He lives somewhere in the happy absences of Georgia's vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom bomb; the Deacon, a muskrat so elegantly educated that he speaks mostly in Old English script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Possum with Snob Appeal | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

...Doren caught a pass from Jim Poindexter for the extra point which was the margin of victory. The play came after a 35-yard toss from halfback Bill Howland to end Bob Barbee gave the Slaves their score in the second period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Only Eliot, Winthrop Stave Off Elis | 11/24/1951 | See Source »

...Bellboys, improving as the season progressed, lost only one game and tied strong Winthrop. Pierson's relatively sluggish offense has been paced by fast halfback Charlie Howland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eleven Intramural Teams to Engage Yale Colleges Today | 11/23/1951 | See Source »

...Republican charge that Cinemactress Myrna Loy and her new State Department husband Howland H. Sargeant had enjoyed a Paris honeymoon at government expense is just not so, declared Georgia's Democratic Congressman Prince

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hearts & Flowers | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Married. Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 45, "perfect wife" of the movies (The Thin Man, Cheaper by the Dozen); and Howland H. Sargeant, 39, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, who last year headed the United States' UNESCO delegation to which she was an adviser; she for the fourth time, he for the second; at Fort Myer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 11, 1951 | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

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