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...German shepherd dogs. From his huge, marble-topped desk in the Trib's Gothic tower, he bombarded his staff with memos signed "RRMcC." They ranged over thousands of subjects, from international political skulduggery to the most nonsensical trivia. "Everyone should be interested to know how hard a lobster pinches," the Colonel once scribbled. "Crabs, clams, oysters. This information should be easy to get. I suppose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Colonel | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Mugging, singing, dancing, and dialogue blend most charmingly when Richard Smithies and William Bridges as the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle give Alice a demonstration of the Lobster Quadrille and describe their childhood in the school under the sea. Next in order of charm is the scene between Alice and Humpty-Dumpty, played by Colgate Salisbury...

Author: By John A. Pope, | Title: Alice in Wonderland | 2/16/1955 | See Source »

...late Mrs. Henry Ford (in an article on her "Model T cookies"). Her office at the Trib, next door to the testing kitchen, is stuffed with all kinds of sample foods from German wild boar roast, smoked shrimp paste and bite-size saltless matzoth to dehydrated soups and lobster royal ("cooked with a wiggle in its tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Columnist at the Table | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

...young boarder, Vivian. In spite of her faults, however, Molly snares a husband, who loves her bacause she only "half hears" him, a good thing considering the rot he talks about. doggedly he bears with her through exchanges like: "Molly, we can't stay here playing cards in the Lobster Bowl cocktail lounge until we're old." Molly (ingenuously): "If we got a biger light-bulb, we could play in the bed-room." That Elizabeth Ross and Logan Ramsey manage to give a hint of life to theses impossible roles in remarkable...

Author: By R. E. Oldensurg, | Title: In the Summer House | 12/4/1953 | See Source »

Deadly Weapon. In Johannesburg, South Africa, police hunted the four men who took $26 from a gas station cash register while holding the attendant at bay with a live lobster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1953 | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

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