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Upton Sinclair; France's Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, ex-Communists André Malraux and André Gide. First place went to Steinbeck, who "jumped from the camp of progress and love of humanity into the camp of frantic reaction, barbarism and cannibalism."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: The Hemisphere, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

In the extremity of his suffering, starving man has tried to fill his empty belly with water, snow, wood, bark, leather, clay and even manure. Often these drastic fillers are tried when human flesh is available. "There are few acts so basically revolting as cannibalism," say Dr. Keys and his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hungry Men | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

The best-known cases of U.S. cannibalism happened in the Donner Party of settlers from Illinois, who were marooned in the Sierra Nevada on their way to California in 1846. These people, say the authors, were "fairly ordinary folk, inexperienced in the ways of explorers but courageous and resourceful . . . [though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hungry Men | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

After the rats had been trained to ignore light and noise, they were put in pens built to resemble such favorite rat hangouts as kitchens or corncribs. There, in front of the cameras, they performed their normal dramas of robbery, love and cannibalism. Rat mothers suckled their young, and sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Peek at Peekers | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

"Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure. Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty embellished shape of many species...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Track of the White Whale | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

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