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After a bruising 4 to 4 tie with Hofstra (besides a 200-mile auto trip), the Crimson showed great speed and team coordination against Maryland. All the Terrapin goals came with Harvard a man short...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Squad Drops Three but Looks Good Against Tough Teams | 4/7/1952 | See Source »

...closer and saw only "three boys," he turned back. He went on down the road and borrowed a trailer from someone else. Later that afternoon, two deputy sheriffs arrested him. One of the "boys," they said, was 17-year-old Willa Jean Boswell, dressed in dungarees and terrapin shell hat. Farmer Ingram was charged with "assault . . . with intent to commit rape" against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH CAROLINA: Assault at 50 Feet | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

Some years before, he had made a trip to Washington and stayed at the Mayflower. He liked many things about it, including the Presidential Dining Room where columnists, politicos and union chiefs served up the latest gossip as piping hot as the famed terrapin soup. Most of all he liked the way the Mayflower had gone through the financial wringer and come out making money. He bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...late years Cartoonist Arno, never timid in his technique, has broadened his brush stroke and simplified his situations ("I hate messing around with complicated backgrounds"). Some up-&-coming Arno types: the chinless, chestless little husband, and the ferocious, terrapin-eyed old girl of 50 who admires ballplayers ("We do sell them sometimes, lady, but only to other teams"). Arno likes best the gagless, slapdash sketches of clowns and nudes with which he has padded out his book, even hopes to hang them in a "serious" one-man show later this season. But he admits that he finds his fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shoo Shoo, Sugar Daddy | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...cream of Democratic womanhood was there-India Edwards, 54, boss of the party's women workers and a rising queenmaker, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who runs the U.S. Mint, Minnesota's Eugenie Anderson, new ambassador to Denmark-to celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf of figures in hand. Harry Truman rose, grinning, and without waiting for the formality of an introduction, said into the mike: "I have some early election returns. Lehman and O'Dwyer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Most Happy Evening | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

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