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Keyed Up. In Richmond. B.C., learning that a church was to be built near her mink farm. Mrs. Anna Sierpina hotly objected on the grounds that "unfamiliar noises" like hymn singing might cause her mink to devour their young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 4, 1960 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...Department wishes to continue in its lonely course, it could consider charging extra for additional servings. Thus, the famished student who must devour three servings of beef and potatoes could be required to pay a nominal sum for the extra helpings. Why should moderately-eating people subsidize those who load their trays wtih two or three layers of delicacies? The rule limiting each undergraduate to two glasses of milk can be profitably enforced; after all, each glassful costs six cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Food For Thought | 10/9/1959 | See Source »

While the woman got the pot boiling, the men set to work dismembering the body. In the feast that followed, the four managed to devour all of the deceased save the head and one leg, which they put aside for the next meal. It proved a mistake. A young boy found the head, ran horrified to tell his parents, and the police were called. Uganda, whites and blacks alike, was shocked: the ceremonial eating of a bit of human flesh is still not uncommon in Uganda, but wholesale cannibalism as such is unheard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UGANDA: Eating the Evidence | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A monster picture for children, which is so horrifyingly good that parents may want to taste it before the kids devour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...Seventh Voyage of Sinbad. A monster picture for children which is so horrifyingly good that parents may want to taste it before the kids devour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Time Listings, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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