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Easy to Fool. Under half a dozen aliases, buxom Mrs. Walker, an amateur miner who liked to be called Rimrock Annie, had a long history of falling on slippery floors, being bowled over by cars, being knocked down by people. In the process, she apparently fooled many doctors and quite a few insurance companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Tumbler | 2/26/1951 | See Source »

...weather was wonderful almost everywhere. Skyscraper, silo and factory stack stood sharply against October's bright blue sky. Nights held the first promissory note of frost. New England's sumac was already scarlet; and below the snow-dusted rimrock of the high Rockies, aspen gleamed like brass. Lakes lay dark and still and the sound of an ax or a distant locomotive carried for miles on the tranquil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Finest Time of the Year | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Married. Bette Davis, 32, popeyed film vixen; and Arthur Farnsworth, 34, a childhood friend in Lowell, Mass.; unexpectedly, secretly and both for the second time; in Rimrock, Ariz. They renewed friendship in 1939 when Cinemactress Davis vacationed in Sugar Hill, N. H., where Farnsworth was assistant manager of a hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 13, 1941 | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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