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...whole cross-country season was geared toward one meet and we lost that one," McCurdy said, referring to Yale's 27-28 victory, "so I don't know what to say. It was a whale of a competitive effort, but we didn't quite pull...
Convention Hall roars to the Democratic war song. Red-eyed delegates sing, shout, weep, laugh, wring hands, whale backs and jostle one another in the aisles. Spotlights swing dizzily around the vast room; the convention floor is a riotous sea of waving signs. BANG! BANG! BANG! Permanent Chairman Sam Rayburn thumps endlessly for order: "The sergeant at arms will clear the aisles." Finally, a hush falls. Rayburn smiles for the first time in precisely four years. "Members of the convention!" cries he. "It is my great pleasure to give you the NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...also reflected changes at the University. Straight Yankee cookery, solid meat and potatoes, have given way to "reversion to oddities": food of an "international tinge," as Cronin somewhat equivocally puts it. When oddities are brought from the kitchen, Cronin does not always know about them. Neat tenderloins of whale steak are lovingly brought in from the ocean, but Jim waxes unfelicitous when black-listed "oysters of turkey" find their way to the platters...
...scheme exterminated the island's flies in less than a year (TIME. Feb. 7, 1955). Last spring the USDA and the Florida Livestock Board set up a million-dollar screwworm factory at Sebring, Fla. The fierce, legless maggots are fed on 80,000 Ibs. a week of mixed whale and horse meat flavored with 4,500 gals, of beef blood. When they get their growth and turn into pupae, they are harvested, packed into aluminum canisters, and exposed for 6-2 minutes to gamma rays from radioactive cobalt...
...still face," says Rival Executive Vice President Joseph Getlin, "is getting across to the housewife-not the dog-the advantages of a nutritious single food." Some vets also disagree with the unvarying ration theory, and at least one company (Laddie Boy) is coming out with such varying dishes as whale meat, hash and eggs. But most big canners still insist that the one-dish menu is right; all have big experimental kennels where they constantly check their formulas on kennels of fine dogs. Says Pard Division Head Clarence M. Olson: "If humans could eat one balanced food such...