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...iron shields, got them to lay a 22-mile pipeline to the nearest river to pump in water to the work. Under the spray, he used the armored bulldozer to shove dynamite in an oil barrel close to the well, eleven days later dropped another loaded barrel from a loft. crane, and put out the fire with the two blasts...
...years he searched, visiting savage coasts and coral islands. He almost lost an arm to a loft. shark, was nipped by a poisonous fish. "I was stung, stabbed and bitten," he recalls, "by fishes, fishes, and still more fishes." But never a coelacanth rose to bite him with its catlike teeth...
...Long Voyage Home. In Masterton, N.Z., Pigeon Fancier Robert Stewart looked in his loft, announced that his entry in the 1947 pigeon race from Christchurch to Masterton (300 miles) had finally made...
...found itself with enough space on its hands to report that Cambridge zoologists were experimenting with carrier pigeons to whose wings they had strapped tiny cameras-to find out whether "a bird of the opposite sex [can] lure the messenger from the straight & narrow beeline for the home loft." Similar experiments were going on among the human species. Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra were apparently reconciled after their recent spat and took off, cooing, for London. Marilyn Monroe (see CINEMA), on the other hand, was showing clear signs of cooling in her affections for Joe DiMaggio, while Rita Hayworth...
...like Ebony (estimated 520,000) and Quick-size Jet (estimated 210,000) have become two of the most widely read Negro magazines in the world (TIME, Oct. 1, 1945 et seq.). Two years ago when he put out Tan Confessions ("Is the Chaste Girl Chased?", "Love in the Choir Loft," "I Took My Mother's Man"), Johnson thought he had another winner in a magazine of "passion" with a purpose. Last week he admitted he was wrong...