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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ethiopia fortnight ago. Because the reports of New York Times Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews, who was attached to Badoglio's army, sounded sweet to Italian censors and because he had exhibited great bravery at the battle of Azbi last November, Marshal Badoglio last week pinned to his breast the Italian Medal for Valor. Wrote bemedaled Timesman Matthews from Diredawa last week before returning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Color, Courts & Costs | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...damp uplands of the Belgian Congo a glowering male gorilla beats his breast, while the female leans placidly against a tree, watching her baby eat wild celery. At a waterhole a mother giraffe with widespread forelegs is bending down to drink. Beside her are the male, keeping watch, and the calf. Nearby a young Grévy's zebra is suckling its mother. In the background baboons are scrambling over a steep cliff. On the plains of Tanganyika a group of mottled, sinister-looking wild dogs are intently watching a herd of zebra, ready to give chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Africa Transplanted | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

Last week was U. S. Life Insurance Week, the third that that statistical indus-try has celebrated. Its slogan: "The sooner you plan your future, the better your future will be." Its symbol: a black owl with the words BE WISE emblazoned on its breast. About $200,000 was spent in advertising to make U. S. citizens worry about death or old age, and thousands of insurance men gathered in hundreds of groups to cheer for the law of probabilities, foundation of all insurance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Insurance & Presidents | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...pays to ask questions," declared body-loving Publisher Macfadden. "Take my hotel down in Florida. If you could see how the girls dress down there! Nothing but a pair of shorts and two breast cups. It pays to ask questions! [Ribald laughter.] I'm sure you boys aren't thinking the same thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Fun at Columbia | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...might say, 'They done me wrong.' " In the Manhattan apartment of 30-year-old Pulitzer Prize Dramatist (Men in White) Sidney Kingsley, blonde Actress Doris Dudley (End of Summer), 18-year-old daughter of Radio Theatre Critic Bide Dudley, flounced into the bathroom, shot herself in the breast with a .22 rifle. A suicide note was found. Day after the shooting, which caused only a minor wound, the two renewed announcement of their engagement, said the suicide story was bosh, that the shooting was an accident. In South Bend, Ind. Footballer William Shakespeare, who played three years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 11, 1936 | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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