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...summer, on their farm at Ringwood, N.J., they built a 250-foot slide from the top of the orchard across the lawn, greased the slide with beeswax, and sailed down it "at great speed and with wild howls of glee." Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Presidential Candidate Samuel J. Tilden tried it once when "both of them [were] rather well along in years." Says Author Hewitt: "It is a wonder that they were not hurt...
...first small, wiry Carl Fridén had to sell his machine for cash in advance - he hadn't even a model to demonstrate. But by last week his big plant, built in a San Leandro cherry orchard, employed more than 1,300 workers and was the No. 1 U.S. producer of rotary calculators (as distinguished from the simpler key-driven types). And closemouthed Carl celebrated his wonder machine's tenth anniversary by giving out the nearest thing yet to a financial statement for his closed corporation...
Your article "Down With the Plow" (TIME, July 26) interested me very much because I have an orchard and vineyard in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Calif., which I planted 18 years ago. I have not plowed this place for 15 years on the theory that plowing . . . would do more damage to the soil than good, as these mountains suffer every year from erosion. . . . My trees are more vigorous and produce more fruit than my neighbors...
Eighteen U.S. parachutists were captured in an orchard by the crews of two disabled Nazi tanks. The Germans had two wounded American prisoners; one of their own men was badly shot up. They proposed that the parachutists take all three wounded to a U.S. first-aid station in exchange for their own freedom. A temporary truce was accepted, with the understanding that the Americans would make no immediate attempt to counter-capture the Germans...
...makeup, swords and fans of plot-bare, nuance-encrusted Chinese plays mystified Manhattan theatergoers in 1930, he was the biggest box-office name in China and long top-ranking tan (father of two sons, he always played feminine roles). Emperor Hsuan-tung confirmed his title, "Foremost of the Pear Orchard" -Chinese equivalent of an "Oscar...