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<title>
June 04, 1990: American Notes:Contests
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
June 04, 1990 Gorbachev:In The Eye Of The Storm
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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NATION, Page 57
American Notes
CONTESTS
Nobody Beats The Wiz
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<p> When the huge foreign-born challengers showed up at Angels
Camp, Calif., they filled U.S. competitors with dread. Back
home in Cameroon, it was said, giant African frogs routinely
leap up to 40 ft. How could such a performance fail to win the
Calaveras County Frog Jump Jubilee?
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<p> But when the hopping began, the two aliens, sponsored by
animal importer Andy Koffman, managed nothing better than a
puny 7-ft. 10-in. leap in the finals--even though one of them
jumped twice. Winner of the spirited annual commemoration of
Mark Twain's yarn The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras
County: Help Mr. Wizard, a homegrown Concord, Calif., bullfrog
who jumped a quite respectable 19 ft. 3 in. The prize for the
best alibi went to Koffman, who insisted that his big frogs,
accustomed to the equatorial tropics, just got cold feet. Said
he: "They're not used to the weather we've had here."
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