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Sitting around in Tommy's, Cafe Algiers and the Pewter Pot soon began to depress Beth and she started to join extra-curricular activities. All of them. She pretended she was only looking for friends, not a lover and sometimes she meant it. But beneath her resolve to be self-directed and independent she always had an eye peeled for an eligible male. As she confided in a friend, "I'm not exactly looking for one but if a nice one jumped in my lap I wouldn't exactly push...

Author: By Joanne L. Kenen, | Title: Back to the bathroom mirror | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

Until last February the Country Kitchen was a part of the Pewter Pot muffin franchise...

Author: By Bradley D. Simon, | Title: War of Muffins to Rage Across Harvard Square | 10/9/1976 | See Source »

...testing what electric fish actually do, Cavendish attempted to duplicate their actions by creating an artificial ray and then passing an electric current through it from a battery of the devices known as Leyden phials. He constructed a fish out of wood, with the shock organs made of pewter, but he was dissatisfied with the results, partly because the artificial fish gave off weaker shocks when submerged under water. Cavendish's conclusion was cautious: "On the whole, I think there seems nothing in the phenomena of the torpedo at all incompatible with electricity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Bz-z-z-z! | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

Many Bicentennial promotions are having early success. "Anything under $5 sells like crazy," says Jamie Goodchild, proprietor of Heritage Shop in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall. He stocks inexpensive "antique" flasks, walking sticks and fife-and-drum records along with quality pewter. But there are doubts over all the Bicentennial schlock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: Bucks From The Bicentennial | 9/29/1975 | See Source »

...Friday morning I'll have breakfast at Pewter Pot and then walk my particular route to the training meal. And my black turtleneck, I almost forgot. I don't think I'd play without...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petro: Confidence in Crimson Crease | 1/9/1975 | See Source »

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