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...thought of being associated for the rest of the year with Knbby Urchins leaves you cold you might try a stuffed animal; a penguin, a poodle, or maybe a seal. (These gifts are for grown--ups, can't you get real?) Come on, why not? There's a store full of them on Brattle Street. If you don't like them, you can go next door to J.F. Olsson and get a battery operated skeletal mommoth. Just the kind of thing to send the love(s) of your life to yet them know how you feel about them...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Brain Coral for Uncle Eb | 12/8/1978 | See Source »

...coming student whose ego and self-perception finds a niche in Harvard's plethora of prestige and vanity, and to the super-communist who sneers at the stodgy brick walls of the Fly Club with its fenced-in garden and throws eggs at anything resembling a starchy penguin on Halloween...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: From Pig to Porc: The Changing World of Final Clubs | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

Jackson was the Yankee hitting hero of the second game as well, driving in all three Yankee runs. But Los Angeles Third Baseman Ron Cey, who came up to stay from Albuquerque in 1972, did him exactly one better. Cey is dubbed "the Penguin" by his teammates, and he runs as though he were wearing bedroom slippers. No matter; he could have walked the bases after crunching a Catfish Hunter pitch for a three-run homer. Counting an ear lier RBI, the final score was the Penguin 4, the Yankees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Paths to Glory | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...sixth, the Dodgers heated up, led by the Penguin, Cey. With Dave Lopes and Reggie Smith on base with singles, Cey jumped on a Hunter curve and drilled it into the left field seats for a 4-2 lead...

Author: By Daniel Gil, | Title: Dodgers Take 2-0 Series Lead On Heroics by Welch and Cey | 10/12/1978 | See Source »

While the Coast Guard watches Alaska's "growlers," British scientists are tracking something bigger: a 768-sq.-mi. Antarctic iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic and heading slowly for Africa. But the penguin-inhabited berg, 36 times the size of Bermuda, poses no threat to shipping; it should break up and melt as it hits warmer waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Iceberg Menace in Alaska | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

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