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...only Ralph Rackstraw hums a little. Babies hum at the breast, and mothers hum while rocking them. Children hum at play; workmen hum at work. No company is without its office hummer who strides the halls humming his favorite pop or Paganini. Pablo Casals hums while playing the cello. Why do humans hum? In the current Journal of Auditory Research, a psychiatrist offers a couple of answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Helpful Hmmmmmm | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...Mike Hummer of the Quakers hit the Crimson goal for the initial point of the game at 2:45 in the first period. The Crimson quickly retaliated, however, when Maclay Hyde of the midfield tied the game at 3:50. From then on, the contest was played fairly evenly with the varsity edging Penn at the half, 7-5. In the second half the Quakers rallied and scored six goals to the Crimson's four...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Team Ties Pennsylvania 11-11 in Double Overtime Contest | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

Lightweight Motorcycle. Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson Motor Co. unveiled a lightweight motorcycle called the Hummer. Weighing 160 lbs., the Hummer will get up to 100 miles per gallon, a top speed of 40 m.p.h. Price: $320 f.o.b. Milwaukee (about $100 under Harley's previous low-priced model...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...This week seized another unit of Montgomery Ward & Co. (Hummer Manufacturing Co. of Springfield, Ill.). Reason for the seizure was the same as at Chicago: Montgomery Ward's refusal to obey a WLB order calling for union maintenance of membership. This time there was one difference: the Hummer Co., maker of propellers and carburetors, is a bona fide, though tiny (525 employes) war plant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The President's Week, May 29, 1944 | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Spirit, The Flesh. In Topeka, Kans., Patrolmen David Hummer and William Miller searched a woman prisoner, found in her purse: a Bible, a pint of whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 5, 1942 | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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