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Shortly after our departure, Ed Myers also traversed their territory, taking movies. After becoming friends with the Lacandons and doing them several favors, they told him they would show him a treasure of great value. When the mystic moment arrived, a cloth made of beaten bark was removed from the treasure, placed to protect it from temporal or spiritual harm. As you may have guessed, the treasure was the copy of TIME. . . . HOWARD F. CLINE Assistant Dean Harvard College Cambridge, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...various Italian [anti-Fascist] parties . . . have ... no constitutional authority. . . . When you have to hold a hot coffeepot it is better not to break off the handle until you are sure that you can get another equally convenient and serviceable, or at least that you will find a dish cloth handy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: For Britain | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

Sheep's Clothing. In Manhattan, swank Shirtmaker Clyde offered men's shorts fashioned of a new material: camouflage cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 21, 1944 | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...Kill. In the third scene the matador with his sword and muleta (a red cloth draped across a stick) goes forth to the kill. The art of this work consists of the number and variety of the passes which the matador executes, how close he can let the charging bull go past him, how well he can control the bull's charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Bad Season for Bulls | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

...wool growers' anxiety was understandable. The wool was imported, mainly from Australia and South Africa, to protect the textile industry against uncertain supplies. Woolen cloth production had spurted; the demand for wool jumped from 650 million lb. in 1941 to over 1 billion lb. in 1943. Since U.S. wool production is only 450 million lb. a year, heavy imports and a comfortable stockpile were necessary. But despite record consumption the stockpile of wool still remains large enough to supply the entire U.S. textile industry for a full year at its anticipated 1944 rate of production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Wool Surplus | 2/7/1944 | See Source »

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