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School Superintendent Leo C. Schultz saw no alternative but to send the applications through for "processing." Other citizens, however, had a more elementary answer. As darkness fell one night, a band of men planted a ten-foot cross on top of the Mississippi levee near a Negro housing project. They planted another on the Ohio levee, and still another on the outskirts of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: What's Natural in Cairo | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...Then he had some merry hours hauling it in & out of Central Park-happily waving his bill of sale after police hauled him off to the station. Later, Troy and a few good friends equipped themselves with work clothes, picks, shovels and roadblocks, spent an industrious evening digging a ten-foot hole in a midtown Manhattan street without being caught. Another time he attached an artificial hand to his sleeve, took a trip through the Holland Tunnel. After fastening his toll ticket between the plaster fingers, he whizzed by the collection station, left both ticket and hand in the grasp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Trojan Enterprise | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...They cleaned up the Festspielhaus, hired musicians, replaced costumes and sets destroyed by playfully masquerading American G.I.s quartered in the building at the end of the war. The Wagners also designed some imaginative props. Example: Fafner, the dragon in Siegfried, is a 30-foot, steam-snorting monster with bloody ten-foot jaws, and teeth a foot long. Mused Wolfgang: "Grandfather, in the sky, probably would not like what we are doing. But on second thought, he was such a revolutionary himself, he would probably go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bayreuth Revived | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...came in to the dam on a wide arc, flying low between the mountains, ready for a quick run and a sharp pullout. The first two planes dropped their torpedoes in close parallel, blowing out completely a central floodgate. Four other Skyraiders dropped torpedoes; one of them tore a ten-foot hole in a second floodgate. Water poured out of the dam; minutes later, the Pukhan began to rise. From the U.S. Army to the U.S. Navy-which had never before used torpedoes on inland targets-went an enthusiastic "Well done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AIR WAR: The Navy in the Hills | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

While Cartoonist Milton Caniff looked proudly on and P-51 Mustangs circled overhead, Colorado's Governor Walter Johnson unveiled a ten-foot, 7½-ton limestone statue of comic-strip Aviator Steve Canyon at the junction of U.S. highways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

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