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David McLean, a tenant of the Duke's, saw the Messerschmitt crash and puff into flame, saw also the white bloom of the parachute drifting down through the dusk Armed with a pitchfork, he found Hess lying on the ground with a broken ankle covered by his chute. In perfect English he said to McLean: "Will you take me to Dungavel to see the Duke of Hamilton?" Instead, McLean took him to his cottage, called the Home Guard. The local Home Guard officer arrived, sternly asked in pidgin-English: "You Nazi enemy?" Hess asked again to see the Duke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The World and Hess | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...house Saturday night and everyone else was in bed when he heard a plane overhead. He ran out back of the farm, heard a crash and saw a plane burst into flame in his field. A man was coming down in a parachute, so David got out his pitchfork...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hess Goes over the Hill | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...soundness. But of late he has appeared less in public than he used to, has not spoken from the Piazza Venezia balcony since October, almost never receives the press. Last autumn for the first time in many years he failed to appear-stripped to the waist, swinging a pitchfork, sweating up his massive chest-at the Pontine Marshes harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: No. 1 Facist | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

Famed throughout Texas grew Pitchfork Smith's thunderous writings, his private battles, his oratorical eloquence. Old timers still quote from his street-corner oration on the death of John Barleycorn, the night before Prohibition took effect. One of his speeches ("When You Die, Will You Live Again?") was so highly esteemed by one P. S. Harris, president of Lucky Tiger Remedy Co., that Mr. Harris gave The Pitchfork a lifetime advertising contract, reprinted the speech and sent copies to every barbershop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Pitchfork supported Pa Ferguson, and its editor once sued a newspaper for the 5? he had paid for a copy only to find nothing about Ferguson in it. Ten years ago Pitchfork Smith 'walked into a church where Fort Worth's Rev. J. Frank Norris (who had just been acquitted of murder) was preaching, shook his finger in the preacher's face, boomed: "Dr. Norris, you murdered D. E. Chipps." Threatened by the congregation, he shouted: "Come on, I'm not afraid of a mob! I can lick a mob with a switch!" He was charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of Old Pitch | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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