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...bare legged "Cliffsters yielded not so much as a hair ribbon for three periods. Desperate in the closing minutes of the struggle, the quarterback of the Charles River Chargers called a squeeze play on the next pitch. The center was low and outside and in the shower roam he said it was the "Christmas Night" perfume of the Radcliffe left tackle that made him score a touchdown in the wrong end song...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fleet 'Cliffewomen Escape Grasps Of Funsters on Perfumed Gridiron | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...Heaton, retired civil servant and amateur conchophilist, is the founder of the British Snail-Watching Society. Last week he, and the 70 members of his organization, celebrated their first anniversary by an all-night watch of snails (they roam chiefly at night) on the darkened byways of suburban London. . Like Henry V at Agincourt, the watchers could cry: "We few, we happy few"-for not only is conchophily a rare passion, but membership in the British Snail-Watching Society is rigorously limited to those devotees who take snails with high seriousness. "Lying in the grass, just watching, is not sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Compleat Conchophilist | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

Clark is an indefatigable stroller; he likes to roam about the Vienna Woods, from where he can get a look at the city as a whole-at the neat patterns of villas in the U.S. zone, at the sooty, rambling factories in the Russian zone, and at the Danube that flows, a grey, swift dividing line, between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: An American Abroad | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...action, in surprising amounts, was forthcoming. The administration, after early prodding from student opinion, assumed its responsibilities and moved fast. They quickly set up a central housing office, ordered and set up 198 FPHA family dwellings, rented a Boston hotel, and made extensive further plans that roam on into the fantastic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's Been a Hard Year Since February, Harry . . . . For Renaissance Was Just Around the Corner | 6/7/1946 | See Source »

...Poll. Patterson, strapping and sloppily dressed, used to roam the metropolis by night, haunting Bowery bars, El stations, cheap movies and the newsstands, casually asking people what they thought of the News and its boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passing of a Giant | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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