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...could take his picture (see cut). A few miles farther down the sloshing water seemed to have no shore. In Paducah, Ky., at the mouth of the Tennessee River, the Coast Guard reported that 30% of the town was flooded and all families were ordered out of the city. Mound City, on the Illinois shore, stood as a snow-covered rectangle until the yellow waters filled it up. And down at the mouth of the Ohio, Cairo, Ill. was the site of greatest danger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Yellow Waters | 2/8/1937 | See Source »

...landslide, set up a loud clamor, began to ask why 1,338 official canvassers hired by the Election Board and paid $16,000 did not find these apparent irregularities which were uncovered by a handful of newshawks. It now became clear why the number of registered voters in the Mound City in June had swelled to 394,774, an all-time record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSOURI: Mound City Misbehavior | 9/28/1936 | See Source »

Everett Donaghy, Junior Varsity coach, started on the mound for the Alumni and was touched for three runs n four innings. Mal McTernen, George Tittmann, and Paul Connolly singled successively in the second and subsequently scored two while the graduates were tossing out the side. In the fourth Connolly tallied wen Braman Gibbs backed up his base on balls with a double to center...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VARSITY BATTERS DEVENS, CONQUERS ALUMNI NINE 10-4 | 6/10/1936 | See Source »

...Metropolitan stage. The bereaved Orpheus was personified by Lew Christensen, a tall, strapping young man from Portland, Ore., who wore black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great white wings. Dancer Dollar's function was to lead Dancer Christensen to the entrance of Hades, a giant cage contraption which housed furies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Travesty on Gluck | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

With Al Colwell and Ed Ingalls forced out by examinations the Crimson lineup will see Ben Prouty at first base and either Dick Walsh or George Tittmann, both of whom pitched Saturday, starting on the mound. Jim Sullivan will fill in the outfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Men Will Meet Tufts Baseball Nine Here Tomorrow | 5/27/1936 | See Source »

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