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Instinct Alone. It was not over. The weather, good for twelve days, burst with a snowstorm. All landmarks disappeared; at one point they were near panic at the thought of starvation when someone spotted the blade of an ice ax that Jake had whimsically stuck beside a food cache, a needle point of steel gleaming in an ocean of snow. On instinct alone, Buckingham found the snow corridor that threaded through a region splintered by crevasses. And finally back down to 7,000 ft., they were plucked from McKinley's flank by their pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Great One | 7/13/1959 | See Source »

...life on the sea. They ignore the traditional rules of courtesy (always ask permission to come aboard, never wear leather soles on a deck, never touch polished brass), insist on such levity as cocktail flags-or worse, flags that show a ball and chain (wife aboard), or a battle ax (mother-in-law aboard). They will foul the fine, salty lines of nautical language with mere jibberish, cool their beer with CO fire extinguishers, are blissfully ignorant of the well-founded Rules of the Road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boat Fever | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

...Girls in 509. An intermittently amusing situation comedy in which Peggy Wood plays a violently Republican battle-ax, while Imogene Coca provides some wonderfully wacky kindling. In CHICAGO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...Girls in 509. An intermittently amusing situation comedy in which Peggy Wood plays a violently Republican battle-ax, while Imogene Coca provides some wonderfully wacky kindling. In DETROIT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Feb. 23, 1959 | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

...Girls in 509. An intermittently amusing situation comedy in which Peggy Wood plays a violently Republican battle-ax while Imogene Coca provides some wonderfully whacky kindling. In DETROIT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Feb. 16, 1959 | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

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