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There was also scrub baseball, in which the littlest kid was allowed to play "pigtail," meaning that he stood behind the catcher and retrieved all the passed balls. There were boat races on nearby Crystal Lake, where the air was afume with adult cigar smoke ("One of the great disappointments of my life has been the fact that no cigar ever tasted as good as that cigar smoke used to smell there by Crystal Lake"). Of course there was a high school play. In a performance of Peg o' My Heart, Bruce was called upon by the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Two Worlds | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...salt merchant, but he always wanted to be a soldier -and a revolutionary. At the Paoting Military Academy, he was the only cadet who cut off his pigtail, that symbol of submission to imperial rule; seven years passed before an obscure Changsha student named Mao Tse-tung made a similar gesture of revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Chiang's Last Redoubt: Future Uncertain | 11/8/1971 | See Source »

...findings stem from the spaceflight of a pigtail monkey named Bonny, who was launched on June 28 and brought back to earth after only eight of an intended thirty days of orbit. He died 12 hours after the recovery of his space capsule...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REAL WORLD | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...authority, somebody older, to lead them into life. At first it's the Mother in Our Mother's House. A boy picks up her Bible-quoting habit and throws verses at his siblings. A little girl combs her mother's hairpiece like a slave, then cultivates her own pigtail. These same little saints, when Charlie becomes their authority, take up cigarettes and twist in the halls. The Bible-quoter turns purveyor of whorish wisdom: "Men have their vices...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: Our Mother's House | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

Adultery is a criminal offense in many parts of the world,* but arrests are rare, particularly where famous figures are involved. Choi was the Rock Hudson of Korea, idol of the pigtail set. Kim was once called by a Korean movie critic "the sweetest-looking girl in the free world." Both were married, to others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Babylon Is Not So Far | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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