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...land straddling a 35-mile stretch of Mississippi's Pascagoula River. There he enjoys basking in the primeval beauty of one of the state's last unspoiled areas. White-tailed deer, black bears and game birds abound in the forested region, fish thrive in its sandy-shored oxbow lakes, and the river runs clean. "I drink from it," claims the balding Murrah. "It'll make your hair fall out, but it won't kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Saving the Pascagoula | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Osteopath George Moore and his wife Nancy moved from Buffalo four years ago to the northern Maine community of Oxbow (pop. 72). With their friends Buddy and Gmme Swenson, they bought 150 acres of land and set about building two houses for themselves. They remember the fierce black flies in the summer and the rug hung in the doorway to keep out the cold in the fall. They had no electricity TV telephone or running water. The Swensons drilled a well When money ran low, both women picked potatoes even though they were pregnant. The youngest Swenson child was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans on the Move | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

ELIOT HOUSE DINING HALL. Stagecoach (1939) with John Wayne and The Oxbow Incident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard | 2/15/1973 | See Source »

...boasts a $1,000,000 theater for drama students, a $2,000,000 science building, the championship football team of the Far Western Conference and 300 foreign students. S.F. teaches everything from engineering to skindiving. Most impressive feature: a topflight creative writing department including Novelist Walter van Tilburg (The Oxbow Incident) Clark. Another noted facultyman: Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Master Planner | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

Good schools come in all sizes. Occidental College (1,400 students), a tranquil oasis in hurly-burly Los Angeles, grabbed two of the Southwest's four Rhodes scholarships last year. One of the country's best creative-writing departments, headed by Novelist Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Oxbow Incident), is run by giant (11,000 students) San Francisco State College. And what about Virginia's tiny (400 men) Hampden-Sydney College? It tops all U.S. colleges in percentage of graduates with doctorates in physics, and is tenth in percentage of graduates listed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes Good Nerves | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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