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...fishpond all on fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Beauties | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...Shuttleworth was charged with "scandalous behavior, unbecoming to an officer and gentleman," because he had 1) chucked a bottle of mixed pickles at a photograph of South Africa's Nationalist Defense Minister François Christiaan Erasmus, and 2) dropped the offending photograph into a nearby fishpond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Military Joke | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

Handyman. In Spokane, Disc-Jockey Robert Swartz, who had offered to do any odd jobs for listeners recognizing a popular tune played backwards, faced the prospect, after 18 people guessed right, of having to roof a house, iron some shirts, mow a lawn, repair a fishpond and weed a strawberry patch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...month seacoast villa. Bureau Chief Carl Mydans who, with his wife, Shelley, spent two Christmases in Japanese concentration camps, expected 15 familyless French, Chinese, British, U.S. and Filipino correspondents to join in. Cabled Correspondent Luter: "After dinner we'll feed the carp in the 100-foot fishpond and sing carols to the accompaniment of a Japanese samisen. It will be an international Christmas in a strangely Oriental setting-but most thoughts will be of home. Cheers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Dec. 23, 1946 | 12/23/1946 | See Source »

...punch out his own mathematical visions. At 8 o'clock he has his invariable breakfast of one egg, one piece of white toast, one cup of black coffee. Shortly before 9, he walks to his four-car garage, steps into his 1941 black Lincoln Zephyr, swings around a fishpond in his front yard and out through wrought-iron gates. In ten minutes, he drives to his Santa Monica factory. He steps from his car, walks an exact 24 steps into his walnut-paneled private office, sits down behind his carved walnut desk covered with his own pattern of letters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Passionate Engineer | 11/22/1943 | See Source »

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