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Crossing a road near Gettysburg, 13-year-old Billy Bayly met a mud-splashed Union cavalryman. Said Billy: "Hello . . . What's up?" ". . . You'll find out what's up," snapped the soldier, "the Rebel cavalry [are] close on my heels ... git or you'll be got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Saw It Happen | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

Billy Bayly was disgusted: he was scarcely able to see a thing. On the Union side, General Meade's horse ran away with him, and his staff followed (they all returned to the righting eventually); a Confederate band struck up the gayest "polkas and waltzes"; Sir Arthur found it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Saw It Happen | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

This second recorded English comedy involves a quarrel between Dame Gurton, Jack Prudden '42, and Dame Chat, Donald Eldredge '43, over a needle lost while Gammer is mending the breeches of her servant Hodge, Dan Shook '44. Diccon, Howard Oedel '43, the villain who keeps the quarrel going, is foiled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

He once heard an old salt settle an argument about the extent of the Admiralty's legal authority: ''I tells you all that the Admiralty can do what they like with us. They can hang us, they can shoot us, and they can drown us. There'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bulldog Sea Dog | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

¶ Company Sergeant Major C. F. H. Bayly, 58, English marksman of the 4th Volunteer Battalion of the West Kent Regiment: the famed King's Prize ($1,250), a gold medal and a gold badge in the National Rifle Association's meeting at Bisley Camp, England; with 289...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jul. 25, 1932 | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

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