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...marksmen gathered at Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y. were a strange-looking group, dressed in checked shirts and funny hats. One man wore a skunk pelt on his head, another sported a black sombrero with a feather stuck in the band. The firearms were out of the ordinary too: long-barreled pistols, archaic-looking rifles decorated with carvings, etched designs and inlays. They were all old-style muzzle-loaders-flintlocks or caplocks*-and the oddly hatted people were devoted muzzle-loader fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Flintlocks at the Fort | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

...cast includes such acceptable Latin types as Anthony Quinn and Margo, and such less acceptable Latin types as Jean Peters. In the title role, Marlon Brando, wearing a spitcurl hairdo, drooping mustachios and cartwheel sombrero, slouches and mumbles his way through the excitement in a deadpan Brando voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 11, 1952 | 2/11/1952 | See Source »

...teens, built up a 30,000-acre ranch before going to the state legislature, which he called "The Follies of 1925" and regaled with tall ranch tales. One of the last of the costumed, showman politicians, he shaded his cat eyes and weatherbeaten face under a white sombrero, was considered a dead-ringer for Will Rogers by Rogers himself. To become governor, he "hung on to Roosevelt's coattails and rode like hell." He once astonished a Washington redcap by demanding: "Hell, boy, where's the watering hole?" When President Roosevelt wanted him to nominate for a Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 12, 1951 | 11/12/1951 | See Source »

...prospectors scooped up, rocked in hand sieves and dumped on sorting tables. The diggers (who will pay De Beers 10% of their finds) were a mixed lot. Among them were a monocled Scot known as "Donal the Duke"; bearded, Bible-carrying "Uncle Pete the Sky Pilot," and big, burly, sombrero-wearing Jacob Venter, 51, who has spent half his life looking for diamonds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Nooitgedacht | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

Close the Schools. Except for a new "Hopalong Hildegarde" number which she did in a red sombrero to the strains of Texas Tornado, the act was the standard Hildegarde mixture of sentiment and bounce. Interspersed with her flamboyant piano-playing and her vivacious and nostalgic songs came such blushing lines as "I know I'm not pretty, but I got pep." She kept getting her audiences into the act by handing out roses and kisses to bashful customers (one man decorated with a rose in Olney, Md.: General Omar Bradley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Deep or Not | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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