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...powerful task force of learned Swedes descended on Farmer Trana's field and excavated enthusiastically. Eventually, Wilhelm Holmquist. keeper of the museum's Iron Age Department, dug up a wooden post with six bored holes. This was apparently an upright from the side of a High Seat. The dragon head fitted it perfectly...
...film, but in the lightweight championship fight between Challenger Tommy Collins, 133 Ibs., and Champion Jimmy Carter, 135 Ibs., televised over NBC from the Boston Garden. After two relatively even rounds, Carter hit Collins (an overblown featherweight) a hard left to the jaw. For an instant, Collins remained dazedly upright; then he fell backward to the canvas as if poleaxed...
...Models. Their first big move was to introduce the small, low-priced ($500 and up) spinet, which has almost entirely replaced the oldfashioned, lumbering upright and the high-priced grand piano. (Manhattan's famed Steinway & Sons, however, still concentrates half its output on grand pianos, from $2,700 up, for the carriage and professional trade.) The second big step was to offer a wide selection of pianos. Chicago's mass-production piano makers, such as Wurlitzer, Kimball, and Story & Clark, now offer from 30 to 50 different styles and finishes apiece. Story & Clark, which last year brought...
After taking 15 minutes to dress, Murphy dived into the muddy waters armed with only a flashlight, since it was dark then. He came up with the club after searching for about a quarter of an hour. Murphy said he found the club stuck upright in about a foot of mud, eight feet under the surface, and about 20 feet from the bank...
Banished Belles. Austerely handsome, upright and proper to a degree unusual in Edwardian England, the new Duchess of York stood in severe contrast to her radiant mother-in-law, Queen Alexandra, a woman whom Britons loved as much for King Edward VII's well-known unreliability as for her own beauty. Soon after the accession of husband George, in 1910, Queen Mary let it be known that "I will not have anyone around me about whom there is a breath of scandal"-a statement which automatically banished dozens of Edwardian belles from the royal court...