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Starting center on coach Henry Lamar's eleven, Kessler was a Boston Herald All-Prop selection last year when he played at Andover. He was a letter winner in hockey, lacrosee, and football at the Academy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMEN ELECT KESSLER | 10/19/1960 | See Source »

Four of the attackers attempted to carry off a small Band member, but the husky prop crew intervened. One musician used a baritone sax with good results, and an ex-Marine in the Band's ranks reportedly gave the street brawlers a lesson in their craft...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band, New York Teenagers Stage Melee After Triumph | 10/17/1960 | See Source »

...were plenty of reminders of the man himself. From his nephew's widow came three dolls, one suspended from a garter, that Homer used as models. There were his old watercolor brushes, a newly discovered sketch book, a rumpled storm cap, a fishing net he used as a prop. These were the artist's simple possessions-and for long periods of time, his only companions. "That Duck Pond." To his friends, there was always something of a mystery about why he suddenly quit New York and withdrew to Maine. Some said it was because he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Man & the Sea | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...hosts had been touched by the Atlanta sun. Rather, they were caught up by one more manifestation of upsurging Southern interest in the Republican candidate. The week before, Nixon found the same enthusiasm in a five-hour hop to Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Aug. 29). He found it again prop-stopping in ruggedly segregationist Birmingham as he began his day-long swing last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Sunny Day in Dixie | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

...offer the equivalent of first-class service (meals include hors d'oeuvres, filet mignon, hard liquor, wine and champagne) at less than half the price, and a chance to travel with -or meet-friends. With more and more regular passengers taking jets, airlines are able to use their prop planes on the charter runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: The Sky Ball | 9/5/1960 | See Source »

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