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...behavior of his children. Old Ty Ty was a Georgia cracker whose dusty little farm lay fallow while he and all his family dug in it for gold. Sometimes their faith wavered, but never Ty Ty's. Fifteen years he had been digging. When he heard that an albino was supposed to be a good divining-rod he went and roped one. After digging-hours his children and children-in-law found plenty of trouble to keep themselves busy. Darling Jill was most promiscuous: she seduced her brother-in-law Will and the albino, between whiles teased her potbellied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cracked Crackers | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...Lump. A dignified Albino initialed P. P. entered St. Louis' Barnard Free Skin & Cancer Hospital three years ago. His head was thrown back, his shoulders hunched under his ears. He required morphine to dull the aching, burning pain in his head, neck and shoulders. He was, said P. P., 38, single, a farmer. Five years ago he had noticed a small, hard, rounded lump on the back of his neck. It grew to the size of a ripe olive, then rapidly spread, became an open sore. A year ago he had begun to hold his head back, his chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cancer | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...porcupines, camels, cranes, storks, milgai, kangaroos, monkeys, baboons, dromedaries, tapirs, leopards, hippopotamuses, hyenas, bears, gnus, parrots & macaws, deer, pumas, an audad, a bok and a gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars (albino Negroes), Cliko the Bushman (who reads philosophy when not exhibiting himself), giants, giantesses, midgets, snake charmers, contortionists, fat ladies, a Whirling Dervish, the Rubberneck Man. five Ubangi women with wooden discs in their lips (circumference: 14 in.) and The Vegetable Man whose aberration is paring potatoes to look like rosebuds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover Story: Circus | 4/18/1932 | See Source »

Into the charmed bohemian circle comes boyish Daniel Boleyn under the patronage of aged albino Horace Zagreus, reputed to be simply Wilde about young men. Zagreus undertakes to show Boleyn the ropes of Bohemia, sends him off to tea-parties and interviews with Apes Flagellant, Lesbian and the like. Boleyn takes his orders very seriously but cannot understand what it is all about. At Lord Osmund's drunken Lenten party all the world tries to act crazy, succeeds. Because of his comparatively sane behavior Boleyn, more mystified than ever, is cast off by Zagreus in favor of young Archie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Homo Sappy ens | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

Scientists have seen the white seals of Guadalupe Island before, have reported that the animals are really tawny in color, not white. Best zoological opinion insists that there are no true albino seals. The Guadalupe animals have been bleached to their present yellow by much basking in the semitropical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: White Seals | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

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