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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Due Reflection. In Panama City, Fla., M. H. Pitts put a mirror in front of his solitary pig, happily watched it eat like a hog to keep up with its double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 25, 1946 | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Died. Jesse ("Now You Can Be Taller Than She Is") Adler, 60, the little man (5 ft. 5 in.) who took thought and added two inches to the stature of the little man (himself included) with Adler Elevator Shoes; of coronary thrombosis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Famed for wit as well as product, Adler wrote a weekly chuckler ("Jesse Adler Looks at the News") for 106 newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

...WARREN Chipley, Fla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 4, 1946 | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Last week two respectable gentlemen, trustees of a will, were in Winter Park, Fla. poking and prying about Rollins College's palm-studded campus, trying to dispose of a body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fight for a Fortune | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

...daytime star-sighter, to put celestial navigation on a 24-hour basis, was announced by the A.A.F. Board at Orlando, Fla. An improvement on solar navigation (which requires morning, noon and afternoon sights, plus computations), the new device enables a pilot to choose the stars he wishes to use, plot his position any time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Out of the Labs | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

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