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Give an animal four legs, and it is always easy to get the two-legged kind excited about it. This fact was remarkably well demonstrated in the early days of the New Deal, when move furor was created over the A.A.A. slaughter of "the little pigs" to maintain the Chicago...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Dog's Life | 3/10/1948 | See Source »

One of Radcliffe's more adept snowbunnies is shown above in a touching and not unfamilar pose. In fact, medical science is forever amazed at the pretzel positions assumed by the rubber-legged lasses from the city. Small wonder they would rather stay in bed.

Author: By Farquahar Schussboomer, | Title: Snowbunnies Thrive in Cozy Lodges, Spurn Frigid Trails | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

With that, the catcalls began. Cried one Wallace supporter:"I'm not excited about Truman." Screamed a Trumanite: "Why don'tcha go home?" The meeting was rapidly getting out of hand when Hollywood's Frank Scully, one-legged author of Fun in Bed, onetime candidate for the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Near Zero | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

On a Lausanne railway station platform last week there was a tender parting. The goodbyes were perhaps not forever. Teddybear-tall (6 ft. 2 in.), shy King Michael of Rumania kissed his girl goodbye. The girl was long-legged Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Tender Parting | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Soon he was calling regularly at the teahouse. For long evenings he sat cross-legged and entranced while Yuki taught him the ritual of tea-drinking and a fascinating game in which two players vie for a paper hoop by trying to catch it on paper hooks held under the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Madame O-Yuki | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

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