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...people (including Republicans and teetotalers) have found themselves staring at his periscope-like head. The first witnesses conservatively discussed the serpent in secrecy and only among their closest friends. But Thomas L. Rogers, auditor of a stodgy Boise firm, boldly talked for publication after the serpent sloshed past his rowboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IDAHO: Slimy Slim | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

...nicknamed after a famed Southern baseball umpire, of the Southern and Sally leagues, so called because of his voice. Johnson's few detractors today sometimes call him "Rowboat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORT: New Boss | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

That boat ride to Provincetown looks promising. This department will be glad to sponsor a rowboat down the Charles for single men on the same day, And bring your leggings, there may be sharks...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: STRAIGHT DOPE | 7/16/1943 | See Source »

...military aviators.* From the start he was a spectacular airman. He still has a scar on his chin from the crack-up he prizes most. Hanging in the wreckage of his plane off Plymouth Beach in 1912, he saw help coming: two old codgers in G.A.R. uniforms in a rowboat. They passed him by; they were against airplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR POWER: Offensive Airman | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Skipper Robinson gave orders to steer by her engines. But she was down by the bow, shipping water fast. Her choked pumps wouldn't drain her. Lining up a bucket brigade, her crew bailed her out like a rowboat, all night and all the next day and night, till she dragged on her belly into the port of Tjilatjap, Java...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: HEROES: To Hell and Out Again | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

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