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Ready for the Season. In Missoula, Mont., the U.S. Forestry Service gravely announced that a grizzly bear had broken into a cabin, sneaked off with a hunting knife, an ax, a box of cartridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...cartoon in the Evening News showed a London family preparing with bated breath to open a can of fish. "Steady now, mother," says the paterfamilias, standing by with an ax; "if it springs at you, I slosh it with this ax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Snoek | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...Yugoslav-Italian frontier. In Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, Communist-backed minorities had matters firmly under control. Finland was tied to the Russian economic and security bloc. France was infiltrated with Communist power. China was gripped by civil war. Persia and Turkey lived precariously in the shadow of the Communist ax. Greece was directly threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: The Vishinsky Approach | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...suspicion that Robert destroyed some Lincoln papers. Portrait for Posterity, a knowing study of the major Lincoln biographers, will help many students to understand, if not to condone Robert's stubborn attitude on the subject Lincoln's first biographers were generally more interested in mythmaking and ax grinding than in fact-finding and scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lincoln-Makers | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...moment the father grabbed an assegai and hurled it. It entered the boy's open mouth. Promptly the son pulled the spear out and hurled it back at the father, whose chest was pierced above the heart. Then, just before dropping dead himself, the son seized an ax and cut off his father's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Patrifilicide | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

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