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...Pedro's Cow. In the more advanced villages, the Apostles had no great problem. In others, a week of education usually did the trick. Everyone was invited to a free movie, comic books were passed out to all children, telling the absorbing story of Pedro, Ambrosia, their little daughter and their cow. First the cow gave buckets of milk, and the little girl had dolls and shoes. Then the cow got aftosa: Pedro's daughter became sad, skinny and barefoot. Finally came vaccination and the happy ending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Apostles at Work | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

Virtuoso. In San Pedro, Calif., police hunted the fly fisherman who had made a cast into L. M. White's motel room and flicked out his wallet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 16, 1948 | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...automatic rod for very relaxed fishermen (designed by Anthony Moliskey of San Pedro, Calif.). When a fish bites, the fisherman touches a button. A compressed air cylinder raises the rod, flips the fish toward the frying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

Most of them are just on hand for the fun of it-a fine dancer (Paul Draper) who wants to be a comic; a lyric poet (Reginald Beane) of the hot piano; a cop (Broderick Crawford) so kind-hearted he wants to hand in his badge; an old Arab (Pedro de Cordoba) with exquisite hands and a diagnosis of the world's ills: "No foundation all down the line." The bartender is Bill Bendix at his gentlest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...Pearl (RKO Radio) was almost as big as a golf ball. To the simple, impoverished man (Pedro Armendariz) who nearly drowned himself to bring it out of the sea, it embodied all but unimaginable wealth, and the promise of knowledge and freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

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