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Dates: during 1928-1928
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Lazy skeptics and whining peg-legs, when they read this fluent and elaborate narrative, shook their heads in complete disparagement. "The lying scamp," they murmured, "a front porch he could climb." The London Times, however, believed Pegleg Winthrop, published his story and an editorial, "... a brave man to treat disablement in the War as a spur, not a curb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 20, 1928 | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

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