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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Manolete (Manuel Rodríguez), Spain's No. 1 matador (TIME, July 21), at a benefit performance. His horn bit three inches into Manolete's calf, "destroying a muscle," the doctors said. But the great man stayed right in there until he had dispatched the beast, whose ears, as a token of popular esteem, were presented to him in the infirmary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...French West Africa, Bushman was captured in babyhood. He got to Lincoln Park in 1930, weighing 38 Ibs. Almost every morning for 4½ years, Keeper Eddie Robinson hitched Bushman to a 75-ft. rope and took him out for a romp on the monkey-house lawn. Man and beast wrestled, ran races, played football. Bushman learned how to heave a neat underhand pass, run with the ball, dodge tacklers. He was always gentle and obedient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: By the Lake | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...listened in court while 16 Germans who had worked with him testified against him. He tried to repudiate a long statement which he had made to FBI Agent J. Eldon Dunn in Germany. "Dunn, the blond beast, possessed hypnotic powers," he said. His only defense was a plea of insanity, and that he thought he was helping his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TREASON: American Lord Haw-Haw | 7/7/1947 | See Source »

...Alaskan aviation was zooming. Thanks to the Army's frantic wartime construction, and to war surplus sales (at which an ex-service flyer could buy a DC-3 for $25,000), aviation had finally come of age. The airplane had long been a versatile beast of burden in roadless Alaska. But as late as 1939 northern flying had been a primitive business with no fields capable of accommodating a modern transport, no directional radio navigation aids, little radio communication...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Promised Land | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...slight, mild-mannered journalism instructor from Missouri stepped ashore at Shanghai. His fellow passengers piled into rickshas, but he could not bring himself to ride behind a human beast of burden. He walked to his hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: J. B.'s Boy | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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