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Most dowsers seem to like nothing better than to regale skeptics with their accomplishments. Clarence Hollett of Willow Shade, Ky., styles himself as "the Mr. Doodlebug." In the dowser lexicon, doodlebugs are a special breed - diviners for oil. Hollett, a rotund, barrel-chested man, says he has found wells that produce 1 ,000 bbl. a day and, if only he hadn't been swindled by so-called friends, he might be a millionaire. He also dabbles in healing and dowses for gold. "Don't believe me?" he asks, and promptly borrows a gold ring from a cynical listener...
...first plane, built in 1929, was an endearing spit-and-string monoplane called "the Doodlebug," and his most recent is the F-4 Phantom II, the Mach 2 workhorse of the Viet...
...Doodlebug. That was the nadir of his career. With nowhere to look but up, McDonnell took aim on a $100,000 prize: the 1929 Guggenheim Safe Air-Craft Award, for which he and two associates built a plane they called "the Doodlebug." It was an open-cockpit monoplane that McDonnell hoped to peddle as "the aerial flivver of the future." It came close to consigning him to the past...
...m.p.h., and a skillful driver can skitter and skid them through the turns of a slalom course. Versatile body English is needed on the sharper curves, and in case of a spill the engine is equipped with a deadman throttle that shuts it off and keeps the doodlebug from roaring off empty down the hill. Snowmobile rallies will be held this month in Tuftonboro, N.H., Tomahawk, Wis., Forest Lake, Minn., Skowhegan, Me., and Boonville, N.Y., with prizes for slalom racing, hill climbing, speed runs and cross-country marathons...
Reporter Cahn took the results of his investigation to the police and FBI. Ge Bauer and Newton were quickly picked up and released on bail to await trial for fraud. When police examined a Doodlebug, they found no plutonium, no delicate electronic mechanism. The Doodlebug was just a piece of war-surplus radio equipment that could be bought for $3.50. There had been one slight" change; flashlight batteries had been installed to light up the bulbs when the knobs were turned...