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Buzz Off. In Atlanta, a swarm of bees, settled in a packing crate at an ordnance depot, were quickly sold (for $2.05) as surplus property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 15, 1947 | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

...instructions, buyers were not told the stuff was hers. (Why? Answered the silent Swede's brother Sven, who engineered the auction: "I have found it best for me never to answer questions.") Total take: about $10,000. (Storage bill: $3,000.) Sample price: $8.35, for a crate full of Garbo dolls and doll furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Knickknacks | 5/26/1947 | See Source »

While the Admiral listed the expedition's training, mapping and scientific accomplishments, sailors and river police in motor boats began a wild pursuit of eight penguins that had dashed into the Potomac when their crate hit the dock and split open. At nightfall, three penguins were still at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Big Icebox | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

Each morning Shafer climbs to his "city news bureau" in a loft over Wittenberg's newsstand. The floor is littered with years of overflow from his orange-crate "files," the whole scene dominated by a huge stove and a headless, female cigar-store Indian. There Chet pecks out "Doings," a paragraph of gossip for the local Commercial, and "straight stuff" for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Making his rounds, Chet is easy to spot: in winter by his coonskin hat and wolf coat, in summer by a flat fedora which he once had insured against fire, theft and collision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bumpkins' Biographer | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...years burly Joe Curran played with Communists in the National Maritime Union, and was mighty glad to get their support. For years they used simple-minded Joe, and Joe toed the party line. Now Joe has to admit the Commies had him in a crate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In the Crow's-Nest | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

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