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...Hemingway had met Robert Twigger on the road, he would probably have beaten him up and taken his per diem. The shy, scholarly Twigger's The Extinction Club (William Morrow; 222 pages) is about the elusive Pere David's deer, an anatomical cocktail of an animal with backward-facing horns, a long, thick camel neck and a donkey's tail. For centuries the only Pere David's in the world lived in a walled park outside Beijing, where they were hunted exclusively by the Emperor of China, until an enterprising missionary (the eponymous Pere) smuggled a few specimens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Scholars | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

Tablet Toothbrush. A tablet-form tooth cleanser called Twigger will be marketed nationally by Dallas' Lanpar Co. drug house. An effervescent tablet that can be chewed and dissolved in the mouth, Twigger was devised by Dr. D. Gale Collins, a Santa Fe dentist. Price of a box of 90 Twiggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 12, 1957 | 8/12/1957 | See Source »

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