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...steam locomotive, or helped finance the Atlantic cable. His long white hair reached almost to his shoulders. He shaved himself with a razor used by George Washington. He wore a black frock coat, a black stock about his neck and, when he went visiting, had one of his grandsons trot along after him carrying an air cushion to ease his sharp old bones when he sat down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Machine Age of Innocence | 12/27/1943 | See Source »

...they trot around in motley civics, the members of the new Army (?) unit known as the ASTP reserve have built up quite a few little legends for their 17-year-old statures. The boys have really done themselves proud in the line of hacking around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ring Down That Service Flag Mother, Your Boy's in ASTR | 10/15/1943 | See Source »

...meantime the main New Jersey force for clean government, Governor Charles Edison, harried and hurried Mayor Hague. Danger was that the Governor might trot out his own candidate, and that man might be the best vote-getter in sight. The Mayor finally, reluctantly told reporters that Mr. Moore would not run, because of his health. (You could have knocked hale A. Harry over with an aspirin tablet when reporters told him he was ill.) As Moore was thus given the Jersey bounce. Governor Edison announced his support of Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, who, as secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Jersey Scramble | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

...Japs grabbed a middle-aged storekeeper, according to Father Lebel, looped a rope around his neck and drew it down between his legs, forcing his head down to the level of his knees. "Then they made him trot along ahead of them, like some great clumsy dog on a leash. After they had gone about three miles, they got tired of the sport. One Japanese . . . took his sword and chopped off the man's head. Then all the Japanese casually sat down to lunch a few feet away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: An Outcast of the Islands | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...Dreibelbis judged a waltz contest last week at a service club, and proved to have a true judicial eye for smooth dancing. Dreibelbis is an export on the floor, in everything from the fox trot to the rumba...

Author: By Frank K. Kelly, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

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