Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hell's Fire. In Miles City, Mont., the Rev. John B. Fitz paused in the midst of his outdoor sermon, picked up a gun, shot two rattlesnakes that happened by, went on preaching...
Match into Holocaust. Production costs are pared by filming time-eating outdoor shots with low-paid doubles and stunt men. With transparencies and miniatures, the film is finished in the studio, using a minimum of a well-paid actor's time. The Bills wangle Army & Navy tie-ins : in one picture they used 250 Army planes, in another, a group of Navy divers. Cracked one Hollywoodite : "They strike a match and make it look like a five-alarm fire...
...sport . . . but to find the Law that governs the relations subsisting between human beings and nature." He never found the Law, but he never stopped searching. Until 1914, when he died of pneumonia at 76, John Muir traveled up & down America's wonderful wilderness, later toured the whole outdoor world. Watching him grow restless after seven years in the confines of civilization, his understanding wife packed him off again to his mountain wanderings. His books & magazine articles won him admirers among the great and famous (Teddy Roosevelt ditched a political banquet to talk...
...dose, according to the experimenters, clears an outdoor area of insects for about two weeks. Blown through a house, the fog makes a season-long death trap for flies and mosquitoes. On the basis of tests so far, the DDT fog seems to be harmless to people, birds and animals (see below...
...fame last week. Brenda Helser, one of Coach Jack Cody's Portland (Ore.) protégées, was the nation's swiftest woman sprint swimmer a year ago; then along came another West Coast mermaid, Ann Curtis (TIME, April 23), and snatched away her indoor and outdoor titles...