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It was in 1914 that a comic-strip cannibal chieftain named Gomquotz spoke out, astonishingly, in a mixture of Russian and Yiddish. So tickled were Jewish readers that Cartoonist Harry Hershfield shrewdly abandoned both Gomquotz and his setting?a strip called "Desperate Desmond"?and created a thoroughly Jewish character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Nisht Gehdelt | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

As the female ejects the eggs he fertilizes them, takes them in his mouth one by one and carefully places them in the bubblenest. After she has laid the eggs the female is through, and unless she is removed from the aquarium, her mate will kill her. He zealously guards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

Particulars the perturbed Dutch statesmen could not give. They knew only that a man-eating Papuan tribe had raided the village of Atoika and, after an all night battle, sat down as victors to a banquet at which they ate not only slaughtered enemies but fallen members of their own...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Sympathetic Queen | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

In Boston, Dr. Daniel Davenport was prevented from lecturing on Africans with a cinema called Jan go, in which appeared a cannibal called Maluba, because Maluba informed police that his real name was Firpo Jacko, that he was a janitor in a Harlem apartment house, that Dr. Davenport owed him...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Arkansas Man | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

Mr. & Mrs. Martin Johnson have made many a film about wild places. Their most famed was Simba, a lion story that lost some interest because of its specialization. Now the Johnsons point their telescopic lenses at a variety of things. They start in the Solomon Islands, watching the cowardly headhunters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 3, 1930 | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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