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...grubby, sad-faced gamin wearing an old sweater, patched pants and dirty sneakers, and carrying a slingshot, was packing them in last week in Montreal. He is known to all of French-speaking Canada as "Fridolin," whose annual revues, begun in 1938, have become the joy of French-speaking Montreal and Quebec. His real name-Gratien Gélinas-has faded into the background, as has the fact that he was once the most popular artist on the Canadian, radio. This season's Fridolinons, now running in Montreal, looks like the most successful ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Young Man with a Slingshot | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Conscience. In Mobile, Ala., the Gulf, Mobile & Ohio Railroad received a money order for $3 from a Michigan man who "wanted to pay for some rocks which I took from your right-of-way 35 years ago for my slingshot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 24, 1944 | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...limited purchases to 25 shells, but farmers have priority on the first ammunition released for civilian use since June 1942 and hunters will be lucky to find their quotas. Most will rely on hoarded ammunition. When that is gone, the only weapons will be the bow & arrow and the slingshot. This season may be the last for the duration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Unhappy Hunters | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

That is all there is to it-plotwise. But the characters are continuously funny with each other and with their properties -including a slingshot which consists of a pair of Charles Coburn's pants and their attached elastic suspenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CURRENT & CHOICE: New Picture, May 17, 1943 | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...Ohio), his prima-donna temperament, his peculiar ability to knife inside tackle and the fact that he made 19 All-Americas last year despite a broken jaw. Flat-Foot Frankie was the nation's No. 1 ballcarrier last year. This fall he has discovered that he has a slingshot arm as well as flat feet. In the first six games of the season he rolled up 1,170 yards (726 by air, 444 by land)-more than any other college player...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Glory, Glory to Old Georgia | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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