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...free stew in the Exeter St. lockers must have been unusually enticing this year, for the fastest Boston marathon field ever raced home in record time to gobble...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holmes Wins Silver Medal In Boston Marathon Grind | 4/20/1956 | See Source »

Weightman Pete Harpel turned in the finest performance for the Crimson, placing fourth among a star-studded 16-pound hammer field. American record-holder Harold Connolly unleashed a toss of 201 feet, 1 inch to lead a field which included former record-holder Bob Backus and Stew Thompson, ex-Yale star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Relay Team Fifth in Quantico Meet; Harpel Finishes Fourth in Hammer | 4/10/1956 | See Source »

...recipe, sent to Madame by a Hong Kong herb practitioner: stew a pure white dove in plain water until meat separates from bones. Drink only the broth. Expect no results for six weeks, maybe never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 27, 1956 | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

...bliss, concluding with a wedding procession. The Shifting, Whispering Sands had Snooky Lanson looking like an obbligato against a film showing "the beauty and terror of the desert." Moments to Remember (a comedy number) went to Africa, where a couple of big-game hunters were popped into stew pots by cannibals, and were seen singing before they became supper (Tarzan finally swung in on a vine and rescued the lady). A Romantic Guy, I became a top-hat-and-white-tie serenade, and Suddenly There Is a Valley went to a hospital, where a nurse (Dorothy Collins) sang her "song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The Week in Review | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...hosts and guests came dressed in their most splendid clothes, the chiefs wearing elaborately carved wooden hats adorned with ermine skins and sea-lion bristles, and carrying their ceremonial staffs. The meals alone involved prodigious waste: one massive, carved, 14-foot-long wooden trencher held 120 gallons of fish stew. The host would often perform a ceremony roughly equivalent to lighting a cigar with a $100 bill: he ladled out the savory fish oil onto the fire. The stoic guests proved themselves unimpressed by sitting motionless even when the flames blistered their legs and set fire to their bearskin robes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE BIG SPENDERS | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

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