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Advanced Fantasy. At 49, James Thurber is a greying, railish six-footer who has been prolific of achievement in the face of physical handicap. For years specialists have been fighting to save Thurber's one remaining eye. The other was accidentally put out by an arrow in the hands of his eldest brother when James...
Enthusiastic, rumple-haired Jerry Mann first entered Texas public life as star quarterback of Southern Methodist University's 1927 football team, when he was known as "Little Red Arrow." To be Governor, he must unseat incumbent Coke Stevenson, a goat-raising, small-town banker. Governor Stevenson has managed the State pretty well, keeping popular by sniping constantly at New Deal "bureaucracy" but not at Franklin Roosevelt. Stevenson's popularity was highest when he concentrated on gas rationing, which irks Texans living in sight of gushing oil wells...
...limited purchases to 25 shells, but farmers have priority on the first ammunition released for civilian use since June 1942 and hunters will be lucky to find their quotas. Most will rely on hoarded ammunition. When that is gone, the only weapons will be the bow & arrow and the slingshot. This season may be the last for the duration...
...Yale to take a mechanic's job with Packard Motor Car Co. at 16? an hour. He wanted to be in a business "where everything moved." One of the fastest movers was Joe Frazer. He left Packard for General Motors, switched to Chevrolet, left to form the Pierce Arrow Finance Co., settled down for a long stay with Chrysler Corp. But Joe Frazer had always hankered to run his own auto company, build...
Most striking example shown last week was the Carreta de la Muerte-a "death cart" (see cut) in which a grinning skeleton with elongated wooden limbs sits upright with a bow & arrow poised for shooting. The cart was used in the Holy Week ceremonies of the Penitentes, a sect of zealots who flagellated and crucified themselves and each other, and which, although modified in ceremony, still exists in remote regions of New Mexico...