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...jump is the distance from the center of the ring to the final resting place. A jumping frog's handler (known as a "jockey") is forbidden to touch him after the first leap. Just before the first, the jockey is allowed to give him just one brisk flick, or tickle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Leapers | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

...will carry some of the U.S. shows that make Canadians flick the dial, tune in on U.S. stations. Among them: Bob Hope, Fred Allen, Philco's Hall of Fame, and a serial, That Brewster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: New Network | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

Anyone who is baffled by mathematics beyond the multiplication tables can imagine with awe the Brobdingnagian mental efforts involved in inventing a clerkproof, 5,500-part machine that adds, subtracts, multiplies and divides with the flick of a finger. Last week a 52-year-old Swedish inventor named Carl M. Fridé celebrated the tenth anniversary of the second time he had invented such a machine. Moreover, although the principle of an accurate calculator is already 123 years old, Carl Fridén's second model was further complicated by the fact that he could not infringe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVENTION: Calculator's Calculations | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...Beat of the Master. He took with him a knowledge of symphonic conducting based on a careful study of every flick of Toscanini's baton. After Wallenstein was appointed musical director of Station WOR, discriminating listeners began to notice a Toscanini polish and precision in WOR's Sinfonietta. Even today Alfred Wallenstein, with a passion for clarity and neatness and a curious paddling beat, conducts like a carbon copy of Arturo Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Homemade Maestros | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

Dead Bird. In Portland, Ore., Harold M. Flick removed 27 brass cartridges from a rooster, sat down to a chicken dinner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 26, 1943 | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

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