Word: hatching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest will consist of: 1) animated versions of the stories, You Could Look It Up (how a big-league ball club won a pennant by-sending a midget in to bat) and The Unicorn in the Garden (how a woman tried to have her husband sent to the booby hatch and was instead committed herself); 2) dramatizations, using flesh & blood actors, of four of the "Mr. & Mrs. Monroe" stories, dealing with marriage perplexities; 3) another animated lecture, urging the superiority of dogs to humans and including that celebrated cartoon sequence, The Bloodhound and the Bug; 4) a live dramatization...
Derrick Wild beat Bill Brawley in the 155-pound singles over a half-mile. Morgan Hatch edged Charles Gardiner of the Business School in comps, while Ed Wilford came in ahead of Lee Segel in wherries...
John Hart won the former in 3:08, while Morgan Hatch clocked 3:28 for a comp victory. Eliot's Dave Morris swept the wherry field in 3:55, while Frank Manheim did 3:55, while Frank Manheim did 3:09 to capture the singles race for Kirkland...
Baby Sitting. Until 1867, ostriches ran wild. South Africans believed that leathers of captive birds wouldn't curl. An Englishman named Arthur Douglass broke that myth. He not only produced curly feathers from tame birds, but also devised an incubator to hatch the three-pound egg. Others quickly took up ostrich raising (some paid native girls to take turns sitting on the eggs). Traders swarmed out to the scattered farms, offering cartloads of oil lamps, stoves and feminine finery in exchange for plumes, fashionable in late Victorian and Edwardian days...
Also in realm of pleasant music are the spring evening Glee Club concerts on the Widener steps and the outdoor Band concerts emanating from the Hatch shell on the Charles River esplanade. Then again there's no telling when Schneider's Silver Cornet band may cut loose again down by the Winthrop gate...