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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile United Press Correspondent Jack Belden managed to reach the field headquarters of "100 Victories" Wei somewhere in Shansi-his messages via the headquarters radio not saying where. "General Wei is as cold as a Shansi winter wind," radioed Mr. Belden. "He came from behind a sea of maps to grant the curtest interview I have ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Victories & Napoleon | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

...Belden noted that "100 Victories" Wei seemed to have some heavy artillery and plenty of small, anti-tank guns. Previous lack of these accounted for many Chinese defeats in the North, for Japanese light tanks have advanced almost with impunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Victories & Napoleon | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

From England will come the Reverend Canon James S. Bezzant of Liverpool Cathedral, who will be William Belden Noble Lecture at the Harvard Divinity School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Total OF Fifteen GUEST LECTURERS HERE FOR 1936-37 | 9/29/1936 | See Source »

Full-grown pronghorn antelopes are so claustrophobic that they die within 48 hours after capture. Newly-born fawns, however, are easily domesticated. Rancher Belden, who is proud of never having killed an antelope, catches the fawns with over-sized butterfly nets or with fox terriers, feeds them cow's milk through a nipple. As soon as the young pronghorns are around two months old and weigh about 25 Ib., Rancher Belden sets about delivering them to zoos, which are always eager for them. Since most means of transport are too arduous for the delicate fawns, he uses the Ryan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Aerial Antelope | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

Last week, with 83 little pronghorns carefully wrapped in burlap bags and resting in two rows in the plane, Rancher Belden and Pilot Monday took off from Pitchfork, began dropping antelope all across the nation. The Chicago and Philadelphia Zoos each got a pair and three were delivered at the National Zoo in Washington. Then the plane buzzed on to New York, where eight went to an animal dealer to be sold as pets, six went to the New York Zoological Park, two were consigned to Germany as cargo on the Hindenburg. For each of the tawny, wide-eyed, prick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Aerial Antelope | 8/31/1936 | See Source »

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