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...alive." Last week, he was wheeled into a pagoda-shaped, whitewashed building outside Orlando, Fla. and sat, grim and lordly (in a pit-side box built specially for him and his wheel chair). John Kehoe's hand trembled as one of his game cocks, a fierce looking grey muff, was brought into the pit, weighed and made ready for battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting the Cocks | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Most recent muff: by the New York Times's erudite Arthur Krock, who last week had it "if elected I will not qualify...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Roll Call | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...picture's humor is as broad as its action is fast. The script is virtually actor-proof: all the characters are kept so busy ducking bullets, knives and pottery that they rarely get a chance to deliver a line, let alone muff one. But beauteous Yvonne de Carlo has competent support from strong-armed Rod Cameron and from a taciturn Indian who says "Ho" instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...hours; altitude zero. Noticed mouse in radio room. 1150 hours; 10,000 feet: crew taking oxygen. Mouse okay. 1310 hours; 22,000 feet: mouse cold so I'm putting him in my heated muff. He's pretty drowsy. 1325 hours; 25,000 feet: mouse unconscious. Fleas show activity. Target bombed. 1510 hours; 20,000 feet: mouse stirring. 1600 hours; 10,000 feet: mouse running around radio room. 1630 hours; altitude zero: gunner just salvoed mouse out of plane. When last seen mouse and fleas were doing okay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Mouse & Men | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

...failure was not entirely OWI's fault. The propaganda agency has never had a clear explanation of U.S. foreign policy from either Franklin Roosevelt or his State Department. Until it gets one, OWI is likely to muff it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Press, Aug. 9, 1943 | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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