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Morandi has been preoccupied with empty bottles of all sizes and shapes for most of his adult life. This time, only one of his creamy pictures is of bottles. The other two: a still life of oyster shells, a landscape as calm and peaceful as the countryside around Morandi's native Bologna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Digestible Moderns | 11/10/1952 | See Source »

...Albino ("The Oyster") Rossi and Marcello ("The Slipper") Bon, Italy's famed (for 400 years) gondola race; in Venice. , Winners for the sixth straight time, Rossi and Bon received an all-too-familiar prize: a suckling pig, plus 300,000 lira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

...been looking with distaste at people ever since he was brought from French Equatorial Africa as a puny, 11-lb. baby, Bamboo, now a quarter-ton, 6-ft. evil-tempered gorilla, celebrated his 25th anniversary of confinement with a "birthday cake" made of cod liver oil, peanut mash and oyster shell, with a watermelon for dessert. The anniversary also chalked up a record. Bamboo, whether he likes it or not, is the only gorilla ever to survive a quarter-century in captivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Lying Bastard | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...Athletic spoke on the Harvard Athletic Program Elliott Perkins, master of Lowell, cussed The Role of the Houses, and I Bender talked about The College and dent Outside the Classroom. Some on a science four of the labs and ice rooms. Meanwhile, the class of registered at the Oyster Harbors Club in Osterville...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '27 Grads Hear Services, Symphony As Four-Day Fiesta Gets Under Way | 6/17/1952 | See Source »

...convertible, "Pan American," only 36 inches high with the top down. The 18-foot-long car has a 165-horsepower engine with a built-in air scoop in the hood to feed air to the carburetor, and a top speed of 135 m.p.h. Its instrument panel is finished in oyster-white leather, along with leather trim in the steering wheel and door handles. When it goes into limited production next fall, the Pan American will sell for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Gold-Plated Hot Rods | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

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