Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Star of the German team was Hans Guenther Winkler, a 28-year-old aspirin salesman from Warendorf, who was mounted on Halla, a brown, nine-year-old mare that he had picked up as "a worthless nag" 2½ years ago and trained into a sensational jumper. Peering through his spectacles, he gave her a remarkably relaxed ride, took her easily over the first five jumps. On the sixth and toughest jump-a 5-ft.-high and 5-ft.-wide "double oxer"-the mare's hind hoofs, desperately straining upwards, did not quite clear the white bar and sent...
Picturize & Pasteurize. Author Peale cites dozens of before-and-after case histories of people who have followed such advice with good results-the despondent businessman who kept repeating a Bible verse until he could "square his shoulders and walk out into the night"; the high jumper who made it after he was told: "Throw your heart over the bar and your body will follow"; the gym proprietor who kept a sign on the wall reading A P R P B W P R A A (for "Affirmative Prayers Release Powers By Which Positive Results Are Accomplished"); the woman who could...
...West's 20th century uranium rush, only one prospector thus far has been dry-gulched in 19th century fashion. He was Leroy Albert Wilson, a brawling, bullying Utah claim-jumper, whose body was found near the Kanab uranium strike with six .45 bullet holes in the head and back and a Geiger counter still clicking in his hand (TIME, May 31). The sheriff promptly arrested Wilson's prospecting partner: Tom Holland, 49, a jovial, six-foot settler, who had driven off with Wilson the day of the murder, but came back alone. He claimed that he had dropped...
...That Russian was playing on his chute like an organist," marveled a pop-eyed observer at the Second International Parachute Jumping Championships of Saint-Yan last week. "Eto Nichevo," shrugged the jumper. "It was nothing. Everyone on my team...
...Most notorious Communist bail-jumper to date: Gerhart Eisler, top Cominform agent in the U.S. until 1949, when he forfeited his $23,500 bond and got out of New York on the Polish ship Batory. Fugitive Eisler became East Germany's propaganda chief, and then was placed in charge of preventing escapes across the border...