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...river and jumped in. When he climbed out, he met an unknown brown- & -yellow animal ready to spring upon him. He shot at it. Then he was charged by three buffalo bulls. He escaped again, "inclined to believe it all enchantment if the thorns of the prickly pear piercing his feet did not dispel at every moment the illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: American Rivers | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

...spring training oh: 1) conversation techniques, 2) etiquette, 3) posture, 4) dress, 5) make-up and hairdo for the outdoor girl, 6) how to attract the right kind of man as against the wolf. Before hitting the road, the players pledged themselves not to smoke in public or ap pear in bars, arranged to stop in private homes instead of hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Baseball, Maestro, Please | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

John Jacob Astor III, pear-shaped prince of the idle rich, drove down a Manhattan street in a brand-new Rolls-Royce, smacked into a jaywalking 17-year-old boy, was hustled off to a police station, where he borrowed two nickels to make phone calls, was freed and cleared after two hours of questioning, left in another brand new Rolls-Royce which he had summoned with one of the borrowed nickels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...landed in a pear tree, a rather good shock absorber. But the trouble was I didn't filter on through to the ground; instead I dangled about three feet above ground unable to swing far enough to touch anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Parachute Landing in Normandy | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

Friends. Then I heard them more clearly. Never has a Middle Western accent sounded better. I called a little louder. Quietly Sergeant Auge, a fellow I knew, crept out of the hedge, tugged at the branches and with his pigsticker cut my suspension cords. I dropped like an overripe pear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Parachute Landing in Normandy | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

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