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...north fell the forest town of Bialystok, where Polish bigwigs and their guests (often Hermann Goring) used to hunt the stag and wild boar. The fortress at Brest-Litovsk was captured, 600 prisoners taken. The retreat into Rumania became a mad stampede. Two beg red fire engines and a hook-&-ladder from Cracow roared through, clustered with refugees. Polish officers & men swam the Dniester to elude customs officers, escape internment. Polish planes, nearly 200 of them, piled into the little Rumanian airport at Cernauti, one landing on three others, wrecking all four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLISH THEATRE: Blitzkrieger | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...years since Lewis was a miner. *In his heyday, in an abandoned committee room known as "The Boar's Nest," Garner regularly nicked Nick Longworth, Ogden Mills, Joe Cannon-all since dead. His biggest winnings in any one session: $15,000. Biggest loss in any one night: $6,800. Average over the years: unknown but believed very good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 25 Lousy Cents! | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...beloved cocker spaniel. He has the same alert, thoroughbred look, the same wavy hair. He lives in a gamekeeper's cottage near Stowe, where he is now writing his ninth book, on falconry. Best passages in The Sword in the Stone are the descriptions of sporting events: a boar hunt in which the master huntsman's dog is cruelly killed, the pursuit of an escaped falcon which is deep in the molt and not in yarak (proper condition for flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anachronistic Education | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...delved a little deeper into the history of venery he might have learned that the "Blessing of Hounds" is a very ancient custom, handed down from the days when the stag, the roedeer, the boar, and the hare were the chief sources of supply for the winter larder, and their capture depended very largely upon the qualifications of the hounds which brought them down. Similarly, in certain European countries the blessing of crops and fields at the time of sowing, of vineyards, and of fishing vessels still prevails...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 11, 1937 | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Crestfallen were two other huntsmen when the Forest rangers pronounced their scrawny trophies of the day to be merely wild hogs, with little if any boar strain in them. Real boars were credited next day to a Tennessee housewife, a Chattanooga grocer. When the footsore hunters went home from the hills at the end of their third & last day, rangers revealed to reporters that not one of the six animals bagged was of the true wild Russian stock. This week, however, in a new batch of huntsmen, two Knoxvillites named Carey House and Hugh Vandeventer killed an authentic Russian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Texas Wolf Hunt | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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