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Instead of Rembrandts, the items were of a slightly lower value: "a powderpuff doll named buttercup," "a date with Dave Mantilla," and a "crappy but functional bike"--and the most valued of all, the traditional "lambing...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cabot Auction Draws Crowds With 'Lambing' | 4/28/2000 | See Source »

...Crimson edged host B.U., 9-10, and a field of six other area schools yesterday to claim the President's Trophy in Flying Juniors competition. The sailors copped the Powderpuff Trophy in a regatta held at the University of Rhode Island...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Sailing | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

April 30--Powderpuff Trophy, at URI May 1--NEWISA Regional, at Tufts...

Author: By Cracker Jack, | Title: The Crimson Sports Scoreboard | 4/28/1977 | See Source »

...fight time, Patterson was a solid 5-1 favorite despite the nagging fact that he had been open to right hands throughout his coddled career, had been decked by the powderpuff blows of Roy Harris and Pete Rademacher. In fact, since he won the title in 1956 by defeating Archie Moore, Patterson had fought no competent heavyweights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Right Makes Might | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...women artists. And rightly so, because most women artists are lousy. As a rule they paint little, squidgy, fancy things, all prettied up like valentines, and I don't blame the public for not liking them." The speaker, whose signature is simply "Marx," is as masculine as a powderpuff. Marcia Marx Bennett, 26, is a wife, mother-and a good painter. Last week the pretty blonde from Newark had a smash hit show at Mexico City's Institute Nacional de Bellas Artes, the first American woman painter and the second American ever invited to hold a one-artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Les Girls | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

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