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...thought the pennant was in the bag. But the Braves seemed like men under a curse. Their three last games were with St. Louis. They fumbled away the first game 5-4. Next day, with the score tied at 1-1, Third Baseman Eddie Mathews let a bounding ball squirt away from him in the twelfth inning, and with it the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Stretch Run | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...times, of course, with several seas (Red, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean) to fish in, Cousteau's camera can hardly help making a spectacular catch. There are frames that spurt, slumber, dazzle, gloat like stained-glass windows in a sunken cathedral. There is an oozily loathsome shot of the sea squirt, a creature that resembles nothing so much as a length of large intestine on the loose. There is a lot of helling around the coral reefs on submarine scooters that look like sawed-off torpedoes. And there is a hilarious conversation among whales, in which the moviegoer learns an awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 1, 1956 | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

Extremely sly and subtle fishes Are octopi or cuttlefishes. Rather than own themselves defeated They squirt a cloud of ink and beat it. Thus emulating in their capers The editors of Commie papers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...Soft drinks in aerosol pressure cans (American Can Co.), which squirt out when the cap is pressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: Packaged Progress | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Bedtime Chillers. Roughhousing with the second shift, Lou Marx likes to pummel and chase them frantically up and down the three-story house, allows the boys to squirt water guns and smash toys to their hearts' content. (Idella feels the boys are working off their aggressive instincts.) Once a week the Marx brothers pile into their parents' 13-ft.-wide bed for the night. There they are treated to a bedtime-story session in which Marx spins chiller-dillers about such bad guys as a deformed villain who sautes children's eyeballs for supper. The "mean-man stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Little King | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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