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...tracks. Faced with the problem of going along with an essentially plotless and often unfathomable character study or scrapping it for a more conventional plot, 20th Century screenwriter solved it by choosing neither and writing in a mass of extras and animals instead. The result is a spectacular mudflat of a film, neither good Hemingway nor good...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: The Snows of Kilimanjaro | 11/8/1952 | See Source »

...rained steadily and sometimes heavily on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon, turning the field into a spongy mudflat and the visitors' stand into a puddle collector, but the varsity football team practiced outside until 5:30 p.m. before they moved into Briggs Cage. After the practice concluded, Coach Valpey said that the rain had not prevented him from doing all the work he had planned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Scrimmages Despite Shower | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

Until 1931, eelgrass was the pillar of saltwater mudflat society. Under its waving, tape-thin leaves, young and weak creatures sought shelter-and the hungry and strong sought food. But in 1931 and 1932, the eelgrass meadows vanished leaving flats of barren mud as far north as Nova Scotia. A microscopic fungus (Labyrinthula) streaked the eelgrass leaves with brown, killing them to the roots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: News from Underwater | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...wife of Lieut. Christopher Mathewson Jr., son of the late, great baseball pitcher, aviation instructor at Hangchow, China; a fortnight after marriage, on her first flight with her husband; of injuries suffered when Mathewson crashed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong's amphibian plane on a Whangpoo River mudflat; near Lunghua, China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1933 | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

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