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...long, Doubledome." In another piece he gave the back of his hand to an old pal: ". . . Gary Grant has been putting the blast on the kids who pester him for his autograph. I don't get it. When I first met him he was a Coney Island stilt-walker and his square monicker was Archie Leach. . . . When he pushes past those spangle-starved kids and boots them around in print, he's putting a match to his own meal ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Rose Is a Columnist | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

Easing his paunch a trifle. Major General Kreipe came briskly out of his office. He had had a long day at his desk. It was precisely 9:30 p.m. In this gottverdammte Crete-which was not, after all, so gottverdammt after Russia-it was stilt annoying that there should be so much paper work to do; and it was annoying that there was no getting away from the blackout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: MEN AT WAR: Snatch | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Mile Field is a barren place. Its main building is a grass-roofed, gravel-floored operations hut, where crews are briefed before their combat missions and interviewed when they return. A stilt-legged control tower stands near the upper end, from which take-off and landing signals are blinked to the bomber crews. There are no hangars; planes are serviced, bombed up and repaired in revetments around the field, built up with 20-ft. walls as a protection against bomb blasts. Beyond the flight strip, on both sides, are low, scrub-covered hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Hold Them & Wear Them Down | 6/14/1943 | See Source »

...Ingenuity. At Fort Lewis, Wash., some business-body who figured the electricians wiring the barracks were traveling a half-mile a day up & down stepladders made everything wonderful by teaching them stilt-walking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 16, 1942 | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

Wadding "Bull" Souder '41 and stilt-legged Doug Shepardson '41, Mutt and Jeff of Adams House, are not content to wave a flag on Patriots. Day like every other good American. They will display their national spirit by running the twenty-six mile annual bunion derby from Framingham to Boston in seven hours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATRIOTS WILL RUN 26-MILE MARATHON THRU WELLESLEY | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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