Word: talbot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alfred S. Arkley, Melvin L. Bristol, Algernon C. Churchill, Amyn A. Khan, John B. Powers, Hanson C. Robbins, Donald B. Stephenson (captain), William S. Talbot, John G. McGarrahan '58 (manager...
...either financial or personal embarrassment to her son-in-law. After assorted hilarity, the straggling plot lines are swiftly tied into a lover's knot in time for the conclusion. A recurring staple is a budding romance for Spring who, so far, has been vainly courted by Lyle Talbot, Regis Toomey and Paul Cavanaugh. Says Writer-Producer Levy: "The show's message is that a woman can be attractive to men regardless of her age. It makes every dame over 45 think she's still desirable...
...best Crimson time was turned in by Don Stevenson, who came in ten minutes behind the winner, an Olympic team member. Curt Beebe, who was last year's Yardling captain, placed thirty-fifth, followed by Bill Talbot and Mel Bristol, neither of whom have had much cross-country experience. Brad Powers was unable to finish because of trouble with his bindings...
...Arabia Talbot found that the oryx a handsome black-and-white antelope is almost extinct because Arabs believe that to kill one is a great deed. In the old days of horses and spears, the feat was reasonably difficult, but today great motorcades of oil-rich princes of Araby chase the oryx across the desert with barbaric howls and the roar of powerful engines. One emir organized a 300-car hunt. Now the oryx has retreated into the Rub' al Khali (empty quarter) of Southern Arabia, where at most 100 survive. Talbot does not think they will survive...
Wherever he went Talbot tried to find out how the threatened animals live and how they can be protected. In some cases he thinks he aroused local sympathy In one case he found that native beliefs are working in the animals' favor. The Burmese brow-antlered deer was recently on the verge of extinction, but now it is left strictly alone. The natives think that eating its flesh will aggravate venereal diseases...