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Well things didn't really get hot till we got out to Pegleg Mac's. About an hour and a half from Ketchum, down in the valley on the far side of snow-towered Galena Pass, is Pegleg's spread: some pint-sized log cabins, a twin-holer outhouse, a good bit of fence, and the hot springs. We hadn't come to admire the fence...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, at Pegleg Mac's | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

Pearl Wanamaker got her political schooling early. Her father was Nils ("Pegleg") Anderson, a Swedish immigrant who lost a leg and made his fortune in . the logging industry, then served in the state legislature. Pearl was through normal school and was teaching by the time she was 18. At 24 she became a county school superintendent, and then, after her marriage to Civil Engineer Lemuel A. Wanamaker, she followed her father into the legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fighting Lady | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...whistles,which suddenly had faces that scrooged up as they blew. In the next release, our hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete, a monstrous mingling of common house cat and Long John Silver. Everything always went blooey, of course. Pegleg charging, music pounding, Minnie squealing-and Mickey rushing madly to the rescue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: THE MOUSE THAT WALT BUILT | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

Death under a Dory. The peg-legged man, still alive in 1937, passed the story on to a Boston writer and photographer named Edward Rowe Snow. Shortly thereafter, in the best treasure-hunting tradition, Pegleg Nuskey was found dead under an upturned dory with a towline around his neck. But he had talked to the right man. Snow, a burly descendant of New England sailing masters, had been hunting treasure, unsuccessfully, for 20 years. He began trying to track down the King of Calf Island's gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: Yo-ho-ho and a Radar Set | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

Shigemitsu & Litvinoff. In Moscow, truce grew last week directly out of negotiations carried on for the past three weeks by roly-poly Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff and pegleg Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemitsu (who is a great pal of pegleg Correspondent Walter Duranty). The facts about disputed Changkufeng Hill as far as the diplomats could agree last week were: 1) although Moscow claimed the hill under a Russo-Chinese treaty of 1886, for many years it had been completely vacant; 2) Koreans and Manchukuoans had from time to time gone to it on festival pilgrimages unhindered by Red Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Truce | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

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