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...Urban Urge. In Denver, after a new deer enclosure had been built in the city park zoo, a two-year-old buck wandered into town, jumped the seven-foot fence, and joined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 23, 1951 | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...handsomest at the University of Oregon. Strategically surrounded by fraternities, its green lawn slopes away to a mill race that meanders through the campus. One morning last month, sorority row was alive with the news that the Gamma Phi lawn had been desecrated by a seven-foot fiery cross. Sorority members vowed they didn't know who had brought the Ku Klux symbol, but they knew why. One of their sisters, Sophomore Debbie Burgess of Astoria, had been dating a Negro, DeNorval Unthank of Portland, a husky senior in the School of Architecture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Debbie & Gamma Phi | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Felton, a six-foot-two 190-pounder, established the record in a damp and windy setting. An official called a foul on another heave which would have broken all records by an American and Felton was surprised at the call. Reporters at the meet said it was "almost invisible" it Felton's foot stepped over the seven-foot circle. The invalid throw measured 190 feet, 2 1-2 inches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Felton Tosses Hammer Over 187 Feet in N. Y. A. C. Games | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...Coast Guard lifeboat, directed to the spot, wallowed alongside in seven-foot waves, finally grappled Dickie's half-filled raft. All four adventurers were aboard. Two of them lay with their arms around each other. One of them sprawled over the raft's end, the other lay on the bottom in the sloshing, near-freezing water. All were dead of exposure. Two days later a Coast Guard patrol picked up the derelict canoe, floating emptily, still anyone's prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILDREN: The Adventurers | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

Other Items are: seven-foot picture windows, built-in wooden cabinets and acoustic tile on ceilings and corridor floors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mild Weather Speeds Grad Center | 1/6/1950 | See Source »

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