Word: kleine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most daring of sports he was one of the most daring. But he was virtually unknown in the U.S. Even his family had not heard of him for years. All they knew for certain last week was that Alfred John Klein, perhaps the mightiest lion killer of modern times, had died in his home near Nairobi, British East Africa...
News of his death came as a shock to most big-game hunters. Klein had tracked for many of them - F. Trubee Davison, Paul Rainey, Archibald Harrison, the Aga Khan, Lady MacKenzie, Philip Plant. In over 30 years of following game trails, he captured or killed thousands of birds, snakes and beasts, from diminutive dik-diks to giant bull elephants. He stopped counting his lions in 1928, when the British limited each hunter to three kills a year. By that time he had bagged...
Pint-Sized Paradox. To the few who knew Al Klein well, his career and his person were a paradox. Born in Germany 61 years ago, he was brought to the U.S. as a child, trained to follow his father in interior decorating. Full-grown, Al was 5 ft. 4 in. tall and weighed...
...join the Radar Ranks . .. also floating is the news that several of the Baker boys will be held on as staff members . . . including Przychodzin, typing; Rossi, in the first morning class; Tommy Kennedy, third; and Butch Bratton, fourth . . . Strictly off the record is the dope that our boy Klein is on the inside track to take over as company commander, come the first when there won't be any More . . . ditto Hershie for assistant -- he's a wicked-worker when it comes to a watch bill . . . They're telling around Littauer that 240 of the 240-odd (!) members...
...appeared fuzzy to the naked eye, like seeing double. But through polaroid eyeglasses each transparency was a clear, three-dimensional, stereoscopic view into a body. A pencil moving over a film of the chest seemed to move among the ribs, poke the heart. Three dentist brothers, Edward, Milton, Harold Klein, perfected the method...