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...Chicago buyer attempted to make off with two bottles of scotch. The Fromm brothers-President Edward, 44; Vice President Henry, 41; Treasurer Walter, 46; Secretary John, 42-got into the fox-raising business in 1909. They followed the trail of a fox & pups to the foxhole. They built a tent over the hole, stood guard till the young foxes came out (see cut, p. 72). Now the Fromms have 2,000 foxes running wild on their ranch near Wausau, another 4,000 in breeding Dens on a ranch near Milwaukee. The 6,000 foxes are valued at about...
...being photographed in mountainous scenery, her nickname of "Ölige Ziege" (Oily Goat), impolitely coined by a German cinema critic. In 1933, U. S. audiences were able to see Fraulein Riefenstahl in an epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during the filming of which she lived in a Greenland tent for four months (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933). The same year, she wrote, directed and acted in The Blue Light, in which magnificent photography of the Dolomites as background for a fairy tale corroborated Leni Riefenstahl's thesis that sex appeal is unnecessary in the cinema...
This remarkable young man turned up in the East in 1922 on the brake rods of a transcontinental freight train. Son of a poverty-plagued Presbyterian minister, he odd-jobbed his way through Whitman College, Walla Walla, Wash., washing his own clothes, living at times in a tent. Burning for a big university degree, he arrived at Columbia Law School with 6? in his pocket. Before he graduated high in his Class of 1925 he had written a legal text book for a correspondence course. In his last year he taught three courses on the side...
...down to the railway station to meet his military aide, Lieut. Colonel Edwin Watson, who was to accompany him to Chicago. "Come on, Pa," said the President, welcoming the colonel into his car. They tootled through the Foundation grounds, to the wooded hillside where the Presidential Marine guard was tenting. Pointing, the President said: "There's your tent, Pa. It's been pretty chilly lately but I think you'll be all right with a good army blanket. The stove is a bit rusty but the boys will build a fire in it and if the water...
Half a mile farther down the mountain stood a small tent-city where a Marine detachment and Secret Service men shivered all the chill night through. Before the Little White House several members of the detachment stood guard. Presently up the wooded lane with a Secret Service man at the wheel drove a little touring car bearing a 1935 Georgia license plate whose sole symbol was "R." Behind it came more Secret Servants in a big Pierce-Arrow bearing a District of Columbia license and another plate, emblazoned "USSS." From the door of the Little White House, President Roosevelt emerged...