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...dogs travel first class in small cabins of their own, even if their owners go tourist. On the France, there are not only private dog deck, luxurious kennels and special menus, but to put the international travelers completely at ease, there is a choice of French milestone or American hydrant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pets: You Can Take Them with You | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...only a couch, Joe," one yelled from the window, as he dumped it outside, cushion by cushion. The frame was thoroughly axed in the room, taken downstairs in a freight elevator, and set under an open hydrant on DeWolfe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conflagration Sweeps Quincy House Couch | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...Alan Arkin), is poised for a suicidal leap. Up comes natty Milt Manville (Eli Wallach), who recognizes him as a onetime classmate at Poly-Arts U. They swap case histories. Harry tells a tale of existential woe that started when a fox terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that he goes momentarily rigid with paralysis and then turns deaf, blind and mute. Milt prates of the good things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Three for the Seesaw | 11/20/1964 | See Source »

...wild dogs that's suffering from flea-itis and may he scratch himself insane. When he gets to the hospital, let the doctor be a junkie with a gorilla on his back and an orangoutang in his room. Let the hospital catch on fire, and every fire hydrant from Nova Scotia to wherever he was born be froze up. Let muddy water run in his grave. Let lightning strike in his heart and make him so ugly that he'll resemble a gorilla sucking hot Chinese mustard lying across a railroad track with freight trains running across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Place Like Home | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...Dago Hill" section. He never got through the ninth grade. When people asked him how he liked school, he replied, "Closed." Yankee scouts found him on the sandlots, and the first time he showed up for spring training, the veterans just stared. He had a frame like a fire hydrant and a face like a fallen souffle, and when he walked, he looked as if his trousers were pinned together at the knees. He could hit and catch all right. But somehow everything he did or said turned up funny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Myth Becomes a Manager | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

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