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...less than a hundred yards to go when the Crocks started shooting their flame across the canal. It seared the gloom with a great orange-red gash. We broke into a trot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LOCAL ACTION | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

...breathless interval before Kate leaves the radio audience for the delivery room, while Phil Baker (himself) halts the program to page Dr. Preston over the air. The six questions and one extra try answered by Eddie deal exclusively with the movies, giving 20th Century-Fox a thrifty opportunity to trot out Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Sonja Henie, George Montgomery and other high spots clipped from 20th Century-Fox films. Like the picture's obstetrical exigencies, the pace is brisk. Benjamin Stoloff's direction is gingersnappy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 21, 1944 | 8/21/1944 | See Source »

Mule Sense. At first the mules brayed in distress when the caravan was attacked; amateur muleskinners hauled them away in all directions. The mules resisted loudly: they had been taught by U.S. cavalrymen to trot in a decorous file after a bell mare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - OPERATIONS: Merrill's Mules | 8/7/1944 | See Source »

Whoa! In Akron, the City Council, dismayed by the recklessness of local horsemen, adopted an ordinance prohibiting riders from putting their mounts through a trot, canter or gallop within city limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...still in perfect possession. He worked in a motley of joints, including Chinatown's Chatham Club. Around 1916 Jimmy got together a five-piece Dixieland combination for the Club Alamo in Har lem. Their output is best described by their leader: '"When we played a fox trot in dem days, we had to put up a sign and say 'Fox Trot' so a guy could know what to expect. . . . Playin' pianner, I used to have a racin' form instead of notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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