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...Rope Trick. In Johannesburg, South Africa, a native named Mongola cut grass, spent a whole day plaiting it into a rope, then climbed a tree and hanged himself...
Which is nearer the end of its military rope: Japan's ally, Germany, or the U.S.'s ally, China? Few Americans asked the question, but some Chinese wondered...
...cleverest methods of subtle noncollaboration I can imagine. The French people who gave it to me said that millions of these were circulating around while the Germans were here. . . . The effect is produced by inserting a German postage-stamp portrait of Hitler behind the French fisherman's rope...
...still too weak to turn over in bed without help, let alone take regular gym exercises. He has to try them anyway. Frank Scares, 35, lost his right leg at Oran when somebody fumbled a souvenir German grenade. When Scares' gym instructor recently asked him to skip rope, he managed three jumps, then fainted...
...most famed was one he drew in 1902 after hearing that Teddy Roosevelt, at the end of a bagless hunting trip in Mississippi, had refused to shoot a scrawny cub dragged into camp on a rope by two sympathetic Negroes. The "Teddy bear" he drew (see cut) passed into the national folklore, appeared in prose, verse, stage dialogue, political debate, persists as the toy bear which supplanted wooly lambs in the arms of children...