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...fashioned house set in an old-fashioned garden, half way up a verdant incline called Boar's Hill on the outskirts of the ancient university town of Oxford, Poet Laureate Robert Bridges* celebrated the 83rd anniversary of his birth. He passed the day quietly receiving many callers, from hoary...
...CREAM. "All the books here advertised are good." "No room in TIME for the second-rate." Yet under "Cream of this season's literature" you have as Fiction, Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis as the second book in the list. But on p. 38 under heading of "Bible Boar" you have a scathing criticism of the book in nearly four columns. . . . Such a book in any common use of the word is not "good" and should not be considered or advertised as "Cream." Such contradictions hurt TIME by destroying confidence. It hurts the reader by his losing a guide...
...chill climate and on a cage diet. Last week curators of the American Museum of Natural History announced that the dead dragons were nearly ready for exhibition in the new Hall of Dinosaurs. Their eight-foot corpses were mounted, one in the act of strangling a wild boar, the other "snarling defiance at civilization." Beneath their showcase will be a placard explaining again that they were varanus komodensis, giant monitor lizards, descendants of Mesozoic dinosaurs, nocturnal, rapaciously carnivorous, fleet of foot, deaf, strong enough to slay a horse...
American Tobacco (Lucky Strike, Herbert Tareyton, Blue Boar, Lord Salisbury, Melachrino, Natural, Omar, Pall Mall, Sweet Caporal cigarets, Buckingham, Half & Half, Tuxedo, Bull Durham tobaccos) made net income of $22,499,648 last year...
...Stanfield, once a millionaire sheep rancher, neglected a bill of a mere thousand dollars? Perhaps one reason is "The Boar's Nest," famed Washington gambling institution closed a year ago, where Mr. Stanfield's poker is said to have cost him some $250,000. In spite of such unfavorable publicity, he leaves Congress with many friends, who admire him as a gentleman of impulses...