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First they tried beating them with towels, and then doused them doused them in a nearby shower. That stopped the fire, but not the smoke, so Galassi and Palamountain threw the cusions into the courtyard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Trunks Rush To Adams Alarm | 10/17/1951 | See Source »

...lugged the mysterious find into the house of a neighbor, George Epperson, a Rock Island Railroad blacksmith. Epperson took it to the shop, but none of the other metalsmiths could tell him what it was. Under an emery wheel it sent off a shower of hot, brilliant sparks; an acetylene torch wouldn't melt it. On the Fourth of July, young Don and his friends found a use for their find: they took it out after dark and put on a fireworks display by knocking it with a hammer. "The only trouble was," said Don, "we burnt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Buried Treasure | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

Generally he managed to include one or two voluptuous nudes in each picture. "The public demanded it," says Matania. "If there was no nude, then the editor or I would get a shower of letters from readers asking politely why not." He was a standard in Britannia and Eve for 19 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Classical Pin-Ups | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

Among the most significant phenomena at San Francisco last week was one invisible to the naked eye. It was a slow shower of feathers. The Communists' dove of peace, the bird that walks like a bear, had lost most of its plumage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Flight of the Dove | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...Romans." He came to love her so devotedly that he once paid her a supreme compliment: "Why, my dear, you are more like a mistress than a wife." She said of him: "Dizzy has the most wonderful moral courage, but no physical courage. When he has his shower bath, I always have to pull the string...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tory Story | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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