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...title role in Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick is played by a white sperm whale that got one of Captain Ahab's legs-and eventually got the whole of him. Moby Dick himself escaped triumphantly, and flesh & blood whalers have claimed that nothing like him was ever harpooned before or since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Captain Ahab Avenged | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...interpretation of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick," with all its symbolic levels, remains unchanged despite the fact that a white whale has been captured off the coast of Peru, two university professors stated yesterday...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Recent Capture of White Whale Fails to Mar Melville's Meaning | 2/5/1952 | See Source »

...other Big Three Schools may follow Yale in abolishing spring football practice, Herman Hickman intimated to reporters when he visited Boston earlier this week. "If Harvard and Princeton do not drop spring drills, we'll be handicapped," the Yale mentor added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hickman Hints at Spring Drills Ban | 1/26/1952 | See Source »

...contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell for writing his "schmaltz" columns, such as "Man Playing with Words" ("Central Park: This is an island of repose bounded by a stone-and-steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Biggest Success Story | 1/21/1952 | See Source »

...William and Jean Eckart is conventional, but it effectively catches the spirit of the rambling English country manor; Herman Shumlin's direction is perceptive and crisp, but there are a couple of wordy spots in the first act where the action drags...

Author: By Joseph P. Lorenz, | Title: The Playgoer | 1/16/1952 | See Source »

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