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...lance bulls from horseback, from tooling their lances so that they weaken the bulls too early in the fight, the new decree requires that the steel points be impounded for 48 hours before the corrida. It also requires the bullfighter to face the bull with only one cape-waving helper, instead of the many formerly used to confuse the animal. Bulls now must be bigger, and to save them needless, heavy-handed torture, bullfighters must limit their passes to twelve minutes and kill within six minutes. If they fail, the bulls will be released from the arena...
...always in trouble, always trying to cheat someone, always bragging about how he would one day make big money without working. When he was eleven, his mother, trying to keep him busy and out of scrapes, paid the local telephone company to hire him as a lineman's helper. The experiment failed, and Carl was shipped away to Kemper Military School at Boonville, Mo. When he got into more trouble, his mother pushed him into the Marine Corps. He went AWOL, explaining later: "I'd rather be in jail than in the Marines...
...Letter. In Omaha, instructed by Mrs. Hubert Miller to "move anything not nailed down," Mover's Helper George R. Bickel was arrested two hours later for carting $4,725 worth of her jewelry to his hotel room...
...little Manhattan glue and plywood store, one day in 1921, Proprietor Lawrence Ottinger turned to a 20-year-old helper and said : "Tony, there's a great future in this business. It's barely starting, and you're right on the ground floor with me." On the boss's advice, young S. W. ("Tony") Antoville, a Columbia University student, gave up his plans to go to law school, kept his job in the store and insured his future. As the U.S. Plywood Corp. (TIME, Sept. 25, 1950), Lawrence Ottinger's little store became the biggest...
...Lord's Cricket Ground last week, on the fifth and final day of the second test match, the help materialized. The chief helper was Yorkshire Batsman Willie Watson, 32, better known as a professional soccer player than as a cricketer. England needed a whopping 363 runs to win, and there was only a seven-hour playing day (with at least 1½ hours out for luncheon and tea) to do it in. Batsman Watson, slim and serious, stepped to the wicket. With chances of victory almost nil, England's practical aim was to stay...