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...accounts of a race have little, if anything, to do with its actual conduct. Last Saturday the scribes huddled on the way down to the starting line and selected a cleancut Annapolis second classman as official Recorder of The Stroke. This gentleman stepped to the poop deck of the lobster boat that the HAA had thoughtfully hired, cleared his throat, and made the following announcement...

Author: By Charles W. Bailey, | Title: The Sporting Scene | 5/12/1949 | See Source »

Pullman, Washington, the adventuress' home, has a population of 1403 and is known for lobster races and a recent hockey craze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mixed Miss Confuses College, Camp Club | 5/6/1949 | See Source »

...briskly off the rack; at Nick Maloof's restaurant ("where the elite meet the dawn") business was fine. Said Austin O'Toole, owner of the town's biggest market: "These people aren't on pork & beans. You know the first thing we sold out today? Lobster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: The Staggers | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Everything from a modern interpretive "reaction to examinations" to dance movements to poetry are in the offing. The Dance Group will also present studies in technique of several pieces from the Alice in Wonderland duchess-lobster quadrille and a Negro spiritual number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dance Groups to Hold Symposium | 3/17/1949 | See Source »

...Britain's most famous Jesuit public school, Stonyhurst. He was imposingly robust: on one festive occasion he and three other Stonyhurst boys, barely in their teens, feudally consumed "two turkeys, one very large goose, two chickens, one large ham . . . two large sausages, seven boxes of sardines, one of lobster, a plate full of tarts . . . seven pots of jam . . . five bottles of sherry, five of port, one of claret and two of raspberry . . . We had also two bottles of pickles." Hellfire was the only thing that was ever known to scare little Arthur-and Mother Doyle soon fixed that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Prefabrication of Holmes | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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