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Just north of Bozeman, Mont, rears the 9,106-ft. bulk of Bridger Peak, near which years ago was started the Flaming Arrow Dude Ranch. Woodcutters and ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Flaming Arrow | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

...examination or some other cruel testing period impending which will inscribe an icy circle around his moon or draw a thick cloud over his sunset. Life for him does not strike with fury or with the suddenness of lightning. There is no swift piercing of the heart by savage arrow. Rather it is a slow process, cumulative, ponderous, relentless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 1/12/1938 | See Source »

...boastful William Bioff, who lives at pseudo-swank Malibu Beach, drives a sleek Fierce-Arrow, frequents hotspots on his $110 a week, $12 a day expenses, bragged that I.A.T.S.E. had cost film producers $6,000,000 a year. Said Bioff: "Communist groups . . . are responsible for charges . . . under investigation here." The audience booed. "There they are," he said, "they're all Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: I.A.T.S.E. | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

...huge drum, a gift to the band from the Harvard alumni of Pennsylvania, often plays an integral part in the between-the-halves formations, as for example when it toted a teddy bear in the Brown game and repelled an arrow in the Dartmouth puddle-jumping contest...

Author: By Joseph O. Hanson, | Title: Band's Big Drum Really Makes a Noise; Tests Prove Contrary Rumors Untrue | 11/3/1937 | See Source »

...into the Stadium at all. This cardboard monster and its antics caused the Harvard audience to smile with superiority as it gave birth to five little drums. But when the original was exhibited a few minutes later in the role target for the band's bow and arrow stunt, even the most patriotic had to admit it didn't sound very virlie for such a big fellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flood Brings Mudfest on Cridiron and Taxes Spectators' Hardiness in Stands | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

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