Word: matings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...describes how snails have met problems that bedevil many Britons: "The snail may be slow, but it's efficient. It disposes of housing troubles by carrying its house on its back. It lays its own roads by glandular secretion. Above all, being an hermaphrodite, any snail can mate with any other.* Focusing your attention on a snail . . . is a soothing occupation-especially these days...
Born. To Maureen O'Sullivan, 35, cinemactress, ofttime Tarzan's mate, and John Farrow, 40, cinema director: their fourth child, third son; in Hollywood. Name: John Charles Villiers. Weight...
...straight adventure the picture is good. Paramount's standard conception of a mad seacaptain becomes something very far from stock in Howard da Silva's fine, complex, pent-up performance. William Bendix is real and frightening as his brutal and devoted first mate, and Brian Donlevy is resolute and sympathetic whenever he has a chance. Alan Ladd suffers, fights and makes up to womankind with his usual chilly proficiency and Barry Fitzgerald scuttles obscurely around in the galley, making all he can of his few lines...
Specific: Jungle Juice. He reacted by trying to be an officer and a gentleman and to enforce naval regulations all by himself-an effort both preposterous and doomed. The crew began to lay for him. It took a little while before a boatswain's mate, backed by eleven years' experience in the Navy and a specific known as "jungle juice," could get Mr. Keith squared away and settled into the routine of a naval auxiliary craft...
Each School, with the exception of Brown, entered two dinghy crews in the regatta. Tom Day skippered one of the University boats with Leon green as his crew-mate, and Bill Dowd and John Ludwick co-skippered the club's other entry...