Word: walruses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Charles Henry Campbell, 52, witty, walrus-mustached, New Orleans-raised Briton, longtime (1923-42) staffer of the New Orleans Item and Morning Tribune, Britain's head pressagent in Washington since 1942; of a stomach hemorrhage; in Knoxville, Tenn...
Died. William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray, 86, walrus-mustached, stogiechomping, classics-quoting onetime (1931-35) governor of Oklahoma, two-term (1913-17) Congressman, who carried his lunch to work, planted chickpeas on the lawn of the governor's mansion, called out the National Guard to successfully defy Texas and a federal court by closing a Red River toll bridge during a legal hassle, next month used militia again to shut down Oklahoma's gushing oilfields until purchasers raised their bids to private well owners; after a stroke; in Oklahoma City. He campaigned ("Bread and Butter, Bacon and Beans...
...23rd book of his long and musky career, saga-gaga Novelist Vardis Fisher (Testament of Man, seven volumes so far, five to come) surrounds David & Co. with tons of Indians-bucks, squaws, half-breeds-plus prairies full of buffalo meat, oceans of rum, and a plot made of walrus blubber. David is a deep thinker, but on somewhat specialized lines; he broods mostly on pemmican and squaws, in that order...
Animal collector Wyman Carroll will appear in the Lowell House Junior Common Room at 8 p.m. to recruit students for a walrus-catching trip to Alaska or a "Good Will Tour" through Russia next summer...
...star attraction at California's Steinhart Aquarium last week was a sleek, 180-lb. female named Eugenie. A placid seaweed-eater that looks like the product of an accidental mating of a hippo and a walrus, Eugenie is a dugong, one of the fast-disappearing submarine elephants that range the warm oceans from the Red Sea to the South Pacific. Six feet long and probably three years old, she was caught by a native fisherman off the Palau Islands and flown to San Francisco by Stanford University Ichthyologist Dr. Robert Rees Harry. U.S. marine biologists believe that Eugenie...