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...early as March 9 a 'legger visited Mr. Curtis with information purportedly from the kidnappers. Mr. Curtis was unable to reach Col. Lindbergh himself, so he enlisted the aid of two fellow townsmen who knew the family. The triumvirate repeatedly maintained that they were dealing with a different group from the one which "Jafsie" Condon encountered. Cols. Lindbergh and Breckinridge appeared to put most faith in the "Jafsie" trail. With Mr. Curtis and Mr. Dobson-Peacock operating last week in the same area as Col. Lindbergh, there was inference that the two trails were beginning to converge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Hard Case | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...meters, she flaunted 6-in. fingernails, which didn't cause any apparent wind drag. At the world championships in Rome last year, she resembled an exotic alien in her hooded bodysuit. And at this year's Olympic trials in Indianapolis, she titillated fans with the "one-legger," which covers one limb in vivid color and leaves the other muscularly bare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: For Speed and Style, Flo with the Go | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...three-legged ladder puts one farther away from his work than an equivalent height four-legger. Furthermore, that top step will be very narrow and that's where most people stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 16, 1969 | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

...exploring the moon (see cuts) were outlandish contraptions; some of them were serious and imaginative attacks on the difficult problem of studying the lunar surface before humans learn how to survive there. RCA showed a six-legged job that walks cautiously on circular rubber feet, a small six-legger that looks like a metal praying mantis, an inflated plastic ball, and a moon rover that creeps like a centipede. Perhaps the best thought out of the tribe was an insectlike machine made by Space-General Corp. Powered by solar batteries, it walks on long, jointed metal legs. By means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Free Enterprise v. the Moon | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...midtown Chicago 'legger of the Capone era - muscled on one hand by the North Side mob and on the other by the South Siders - was ever in a tighter spot than blue-jowled Benito Mussolini found himself in last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER POLITICS: Four Mobs and the Balkans | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

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