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...friend Featherless, who worries about politics, had been sweating out the possibility of a Gerald Ford candidacy. Featherless is a Democrat, and he was afraid the Republicans were on to something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Imaginary Musings | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...seemed cruel to bring Featherless back to reality, but I wanted to find out why he had been so worried about Gerald Ford. "He wasn't really a threat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Imaginary Musings | 3/24/1980 | See Source »

...flight itself and the victory over time and space. But in the swift tumble of progress called the Air Age, he has wrought more hard truth than poetry. The truth: the skies over the U.S. - busiest of all air borne nations - are roaring with an astonishing complex of featherless birds. Not counting 22,000 military aircraft, there are operating in the U.S. no fewer than 72,000 planes, ranging from lightweight, single-engined private craft to 295,000-lb., jet-driven, kerosene-guzzling monsters. A dozen planes take off and land every minute at the 567 U.S. airports that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Bird Watcher | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Feathered he is, yet he's featherless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAS MACDUFF A HEN? | 10/5/1955 | See Source »

...Featherless Errand. For 18 hours through a howling Italian blizzard a carrier pigeon labored to deliver this message from a snowbound British division to Army headquarters: "Nothing to report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE ENEMY,BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: One Week | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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