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Goring, who was very fat when captured, had evidently first secreted the two-inch cylinder in his navel. As he grew leaner & leaner, his "umbilical cavity" (as the report called it) became unsatisfactory as a hiding place, and he began hiding the precious cylinder in his "alimentary tract" (meaning, doubtless, his rectum). In other words, the No. 2 Nazi used a stratagem known to run-of-the-courthouse detectives the world over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Epilogue | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

Bumper to bumper, thousands of Detroit cars nosed through the Detroit-Windsor tunnel. They were headed across the border for Canadian steaks. In Windsor, Vancouver, Niagara Falls and other border towns, Americans ate luscious two-inch steak dinners for $2 or less. U.S. newspapers, running pictures of the lucky feeders, made millions of meatless Americans drool last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Steakleggers | 10/21/1946 | See Source »

...chartered the "Royal Oak," a hall attached to a Bath pub. In Mouse Monthly, chief spokesman for the N.W.R.M.C., Britons learned more about mouse wheel racing: the track is twelve feet long and has six runways. The mice, one to a runway, propel diminutive wheels, by trotting on a two-inch treadpath. Entry fee for each race: two shillings sixpence. All mice will be pedigreed and registered, like horses, in an official stud book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mouse Racing | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...twisted up & around, he practically put his gloved hand in the batter's face, his right arm snapped through with as much wrist English as though he were cracking a blacksnake whip. The Yankee lead-off man hardly saw the first one that buzzed by with a full two-inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Quite a Feller! | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Wedgies will be widely worn in London this season (there is a two-inch limit on high heels). But there are plenty of reptile skins and blue kids, which are scarce in the U.S. Quality is pretty well up to previous footwear, but styles are unstimulating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Buying Binge | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

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