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...cash and certainties, too restless for college, already back from a year of wandering that had taken him as far as Australia. The mine taught him what he wanted: out. He spent his wages on flying lessons and became a bush pilot in Alaska, the state with the bushiest piloting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Washington: Lighthawk Counts the Clear-Cuts | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...bill or define the terms of its floor consideration, e.g., by setting the time limits on debate, by deciding whether amendments may be made from the floor. Such a power position is made to order for lanky (6 ft. 160 lbs.), courtly Howard Smith, possessor of the bushiest eyebrows south of John L. Lewis. A Byrd organization Democrat, he is the recognized leader of House Southern conservatives, uses his committee to fight off civil rights legislation. ("I use every weapon I've got," he says. "That's why I'm here.") Since 1931 Judge Smith (he was a state circuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: I Love This House | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Major Walter Carl Beckham was browned off (fed to the eyebrows) by the European Theater. He felt and looked like a fighter pilot; he had grown the bushiest, sharpest-pointed fighter-pilot mustache in England. The mustache even drew civilians' stares, which added to the Major's mortification because there was nothing to justify it. In 20 sorties over western Europe in his Thunderbolt he had failed to make a kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: The Major Shaves | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

When American troops appeared in New Guinea, they found natives ("Boongs") with the world's bushiest hair, which sometimes ringed heads with a solid twelve inches of felt-like fuzz (in which they love to pin flowers). They also found seven-toed cats-and a lizard called Gecko which sings, and a bird whose six-noted whistle sounds like "Did he do it?" Pause. "No, oh." U.S. pursuit pilots shot down by daring Japanese Zeroes found themselves parachuting into a leech-infested jungle so thick the earth never feels sunshine-hard, though the sun may try to broil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Yanks in New Guinea | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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