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...scale removers. For processing fish for hotels and other big customers, one company has built big tile workrooms that are as gleaming as a Hollywood steam bath. The market lives up to its boast: "If it swims, we handle it." The Fulton fishmongers supply such exotic morsels as Japanese frog legs, Alaskan king crabs, Indian pompano, Irish bloaters and South African alewives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISHING: Big Haul | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Indiana's bounding 39-year-old Senator William Ezra Jenner has made hardly any splash at all in the U.S. Senate. Some weeks ago he decided that he would much rather be a big frog again along the banks of the Wabash. Last week he almost, but not quite, made his backward jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Ambition in Reverse | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...account, Painter Kyosai was a problem child. He disliked cakes and toys, liked paddling after frogs. His first studied drawing, he recalled, was a frog he sketched in 1834-at the age of three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Eagle & the God | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...responsible for the scripts. The whole graceless affair was a prime example of how Congress, in an election year, can hold itself at arm's length and punch its own nose. For Congress had 1) given the Voice so little money that it was unable to keep the frog out of its throat; 2) insisted that private companies, wherever possible, be called in to do the work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Clear the Decks | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

...Webster," the famed frog of Mark Twain's story, who could "get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see," lost to another freshly caught frog when the rival owner filled Dan'l full of quail shot "pretty near up to his chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 31, 1948 | 5/31/1948 | See Source »

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