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...barnstorming aviator and Hollywood cameraman, Miller tells as many tall ones as Trader Horn, makes some of them sound convincing. The first white child raised in Netherlands New Guinea, he began his jungle jaunts at five, and while still an adolescent became a blood brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Festive Vertebrae | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Professor Albert Moeil of Berlin, who says that marathon dancing is a form of " mass hysteria," anim-adverts thus: "Such mass hysteria occurs periodically. The present dance marathon is comparable to the dance mania in the middle ages which was followed by flagellantism- monks and others whipping themselves as penitents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Marathon Dance | 5/28/1923 | See Source »

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