Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shocked at the discovery that the Navajo Indians face starvation and even death this winter (TIME, Nov. 3), the nation suddenly began sending them relief. The American Red Cross appropriated $100,000 for "immediate stopgap aid," rushed disaster relief workers to the barren Navajo country. A Navajo Trail Relief Caravan Association gathered up food and clothing in California, started seven truckloads on the way to the reservation. Utah citizens helped too. Congress, conscience-stricken after neglectful years, voted a $2,000,000 relief fund for the Navajo and Hopi tribes...
...honoring the Congress of the National Italian Partisans Association and a distinguished guest, General Sidor Kovpak, vice president of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Six abreast in precise lines, the Reds swung along under their mingled banners: the green & white flag of Italy and the red hammer & sickle. "Viva Stalin. . . . Death to De Gasperi!" shouted the fur-capped Ligurian Brigade as it passed the garish white marble monument to the Unknown Soldier. Italian partisans cheered the words of their leader, Luigi Longo: "We do not consider ourselves museum pieces. ... In our hearts are intact the enthusiasm and ideals of conspiracy...
...Albert Schweitzer, now 72, is still fighting death and ignorance in the jungle. So many highbrows (familiar with his scholarly books and his recordings of organ music) have referred to him as the greatest man in the world that he is sometimes known as "the great man's great man." His audience has never been large; but now, at the end of his life, it may at last be dramatically expanding. Two Schweitzer biographies have already appeared this fall: a slick, popular book called Prophet in the Wilderness, by Hermann Hagedorn (Macmillan; $3), and a scholarly book by George...
...clinician" who presented most of the data was Harold Nicolson, urbane British author, onetime diplomat and M.P. To nail the "popular fallacy" that creative writers are prone to be sickly, psychopathic, and "doomed to an untimely death," Nicolson examined the health and lives of Britain's literary great. "Since of all writers poets are . . . the most 'creative,' I . . . concentrate my observations upon the behavior and temperament of poets." Some of his findings...
...within those fences. To outsiders, the feudal fist sometimes seems too hard. There were unpleasant rumbles against the ranch in 1936 when two poachers supposedly disappeared within it. (The Klebergs think that if they really did disappear on their ranch, they might well have got lost and starved to death.) Now, as a good-will gesture, 40 hunters a week are permitted on the ranch during hunting seasons, but they are carefully circumscribed. "You'd be surprised," says Kleberg, "at the damage a couple of fellows with guns can do among cattle...