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...elderly lady remembered the stone creature's dedication. "It was a terribly rainy day," she recalled, "and I can still see President Roosevelt sitting up on the platform, holding an umbrella over his head. He looked so forlorn." Proceedings apparently went smoothly, however...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thankful Dragon | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...messy, cigar-frazzling buffoon who uses cameras, sets, sound effects to make rowdy electronic fun. He may duel and play poker with himself or shoot a hole through his head and blow smoke through it. Once he appeared to viewers inside a huge bottle, holding an umbrella to keep off the rain. He was slowly submerged, then he tapped the bottle with a hammer; and glass, water and Kovacs spilled onstage. Curling his lip over his mustache in a saucy moue, he may address himself to a golf ball and wham it squarely into the Cyclops eye of the camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Utility Expert | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...Nasser. With the considerable assistance of our own State Department's extra-sized umbrella and his brazen Kremlinfamy, he's ignited in the Middle East the spark of World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 3, 1956 | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

When considering his Crimson soccer team, the image of an umbrella must come to Bruce Munro's mind. For when he thinks of his team on the field, he can visualize strength all the way across his forward line, and a solid handle at the goal, but the team is very thin through the middle, in the halfbacks and fullbacks...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Soccer Team Lacks Depth, But Packs Scoring Punch | 9/29/1956 | See Source »

...more literal umbrella would have come in handy yesterday afternoon. Munro was drenched and even his enthusiasm was dampened as he reported that he had not found what he was looking for in a long scrimmage against Boston University...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Soccer Team Lacks Depth, But Packs Scoring Punch | 9/29/1956 | See Source »

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