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...Frogs. In Pueblo, Colo., the annual frog-jumping contest of the Cheese Knife Club was won by Dewey, who defeated Stassen, MacArthur, Bricker, Warren and Willkie. Jumper Roosevelt did not compete...
...competition, frogs jump from the center of a ring. A "jump" is actually three successive .leaps. Official length of the 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...
...rest, any frog may look like a winner. Neither giants nor runts are apt to be champions. Frogs are simply observed in their natural surroundings, and chosen on the basis of performance. Once they join a stable, they are kept in dark, damp, healthful surroundings. Just before being sent into competition, they are subjected to enforced idleness...
...Jumping frogs come from all over. Last week's Manhattan competitors came from frog farms in Vermont and New Jersey. The New Jersey contribution was by Warner Bros., whose interest in the affair was tainted with professionalism (see p. 56). The winners' jockeys, all boys, achieved their victories in various ways. Baby's jockey gave him a fight talk; Superman's said a last-minute prayer; the nameless leaper's rested on his luck. Flash, the world-champion jumper (15 ft. 10 in. in 1941), gave a demonstration, but the best that...
...Taking the (apparently) longest way round to finish Italian fascism-by mock-saluting the big frog while preparing to clean up the marsh...