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HARTFORD (49)--Davies, 4-3-11; Colette 0-0-0; Rice 1-0-2; Potter 0-0-0; Ringland 4-1-9; Whittler 3-2-8; Tremblay 3-1-7; Kaufman 1-0-2; Aquadro 0-0-0; Trott 1-1-3; Jackson 2-1-5; Sivilla 1-0-2; Kracmer 0-0-0; Totals...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: Women Cagers Roll On, Crush Hartford by 35 | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

While R.W. was saying that, Chester Hickle was saying to no one in particular that one man out in the county "is a genius whittler. He whittled a wagon and a team of horses. He whittled a fiddler. He whittles elephants with ears afloppin'. He whittles mules with ears that work too." Still talking just to the air, Chester got up and said, "My arthritis. If I sit too long I have to get out and stir around a bit." On his way out the door, he passed a man who was just sticking his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Arkansas: Whittling Away | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

Wooden hat blocks are old hat to the millinery industry. A designer fashions a new shape, a whittler carves it in wood, and then it is mechanically mass-produced. Felt is draped over it, steamed and pressed into its contours, and voil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Old Hat No More | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...WHITTLER ECHEWA (A Black) Instructor Special Education Center Grambling College Grambling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 7, 1969 | 2/7/1969 | See Source »

...that the gilded Indian gleaming on the Province House cupola would, as superstition had it, shoot his arrow at high noon. In Pennsylvania, a weather vane in the shape of an Indian was meant as an offer of friendship-and hence protection from rampaging redskins. Soon every back-porch whittler and crackerjack craftsman was getting into the act. Weather vanes popped up in the shapes of Uncle Sam, butterflies, locomotives, Gabriel tooting on a trumpet, a haggard country doctor astraddle a haggard horse, even a modest metal mermaid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Art: Turnings in the Wind | 7/16/1965 | See Source »

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