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...sportsman with a gun is sitting peacefully on a mossy log, lighting his pipe. Suddenly he sees something moving in the underbrush. He thinks it is a deer. He reaches for his gun. burns his fingers with his match, sprains his ankle falling off the log, accidentally fires a shot which removes one of his toes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sportsmans Insurance | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...Samuel Jr., last year played tackle on Tulane's football team, was its light-heavyweight boxer. Now he is at Harvard. Mr. Zemurray, when in Boston, lives at the Ritz. In Tangipahoa Parish 50 mi. north of New Orleans he has a vast country place, stocked with wild deer, pheasant and quail. Its artificial lakes are planted with duck potato to lure wildfowl. It also has a golf course on which its owner occasionally breaks 100. Mr. Zemurray endowed a Department of Middle American Research at Tulane for $1,000,000, gave it the famed Gates collection of Mayan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: United Fruit Obeys | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

Died. Carl S. Carlton, 53, farmer brother of Florida's Governor Doyle Elam Carlton; by a charge of buckshot fired, while deer-hunting, by his brother Alton Carlton. ricocheting off a cypress tree full into his face; in the Everglades near Immokalee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 2, 1933 | 1/2/1933 | See Source »

...farming rather than law ran in the Rainey blood. Today the Majority Leader lives in a rambling frame house on a -acre farm near Carrollton. He has pure-bred Holstein-Friesians and fine Hampshire hogs. Over his place roams a herd of sacred Japanese deer, bred from a buck and two does originally obtained from the Washington zoo in exchange for one porcupine. Childless, he has built a wading pool for neighborhood children, gives them the run of his grounds for picnics and play. His milk and corn are trucked to St. Louis. He says: "I think I have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Race to a Rostrum | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

...deer's head has recently been hung just outside the Eliot House dining hall by R. B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and House Master...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merriman Hangs Head | 12/6/1932 | See Source »

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