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...Congress, and greeting small businessmen. The high point was a tableau exhibiting the discovery of the tooth which the President had extracted last autumn strung on the watch chain of a visiting Elk. The entertainment also included a glimpse of Vice President Garner shooting a cow instead of a deer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: High Jinks | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...deer botfly (Cephenomyia pratti Hunter) is a small, blunt-headed insect which sprays its eggs into the nostrils and throats of deer, scattering them like tiny bombs while on the wing. In scientific journals as well as the lay press, the botfly has been widely publicized as the fastest thing on earth. It has been credited with speeds over 800 m.p.h.-faster than the fastest airplanes (over 400 m.p.h.), than the fastest birds (over 100 m.p.h.), than the fastest land animal, the cheetah (70 m.p.h.). Most of this publicity seems to have sprung from the reports of Dr. Charles Henry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Botfly Debunked | 3/21/1938 | See Source »

...became interested in motion pictures while studying zoology at the University of Arizona, has since filmed animals from amoebas to whales. He and Brother Horace spent a year in Mexico filming Chico, his peon father, innumerable animal actors: tanklike armadillos, ridiculously funny honey bears, a lion making a kill, deer Walt Disney might have drawn. The film has a hybrid dramatic content: It is a touching, entertaining mixture of the most sentimental Silly Symphonies, the most thumping Westerns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Feathered Matador | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Last week a semi-constructed forest model involving some deer and a semi-constructed model for a bank involving a swarta of armed soldiers scrambling ever a hay barricade at Bunker Bill were placed nearby. When the sculptor went out he unconsciously left some occer grazing in the field in front of the soldiers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...however, until the official biography appeared last week was it generally known that Hermann as a little boy always encouraged his dog to bite non-Aryans. As for Tenderness, the official version records of Huntsman Göring (a great deer hunter): "He cares for a young deer found by his huntsmen with as much tenderness as he bestows on his pet lion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Paladin's Virtues | 12/27/1937 | See Source »

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