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...away from his father's Missouri farm in 1875. For the next couple of decades he bummed around the West, punching cattle, working on the railroad, acting as scout-interpreter for General George Crook and General Nelson A. Miles when they were chasing the Apache terror, Geronimo, up & down the Southwest. Finally, he developed into a "range detective" and special handyman for big Colorado-Wyoming cattlemen. His specialty was dirty jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Loving Memory | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

...Geronimo! In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt on a ledge, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

...outdone by the aforementioned magazine, the Lucky Bag would add a few western notes to knowledge. A party of prominent Westerners were sea riding the elevators at the Statler Saterdayday night yelling "Geronimo." It seem they have a better pickup than even them at Fargo. At last with a bewildered happy look, Neil Plantefaber, T. S. Smlty John White and Jim Rafferty strode of to meet Dave Schneider and Bob Weeks going up for some of the same. Weekend is the only man in the class beside Mr. Lindsay nursing a ski injury. He get his taking a suicide leap...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 2/9/1945 | See Source »

...sure he knows what he looks like (see cover). But in Jimmy's comedy, Umbriago may assume many shapes-clarinetist, bank president, farmer-according to whatever mischief Durante is up to. Umbriago is also at war. One U.S. Army paratroop division has abandoned the classic paratrooper cry Geronimo! in favor of Umbriago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...pushed and got entangled in their hurry to get out. Despite the apparent confusion, they jumped with great speed: one man every 75 feet, all out within 25 seconds. As they went over, they shouted what sounded like gibberish to Capa. Perhaps it was the paratroops' jumping word-"Geronimo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: How the Invasion Began | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

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