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A five-year-old black bear far outweighs and can easily outrun an eleven-year-old boy. Grant Taylor's schoolmate fled but he, nearest the charging animal, became confused. He bumped into a nearby raccoon cage, and Saucer was on him, hugging him around the neck, clawing and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Cup & Saucer | 10/16/1933 | See Source »

"Who's afraid of the big, bad wolf?" sang the cocky little pigs in Walt Disney's Silly Symphony, the technicolor short which, held over in Manhattan ever since its appearance last spring (TIME, June 5), is still talk-of-the-town. The big, bad wolf came, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Piglets' Tune | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

Bagdad newspapers accused the Assyrians of coming down like wolves on Irak troops and starting all the trouble. Their story was that an Assyrian rebel chief named Yaku has been weaving back & forth across the frontier between Irak and French Syria where he is suspected of obtaining arms. Not long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAK: Border Massacre | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

No flukes are the new Italian speed records, but the fruit of a determined program begun six years ago, after Britain won the Schneider Trophy on Italy's course at Venice. At that time Air Minister Italo Balbo established the speed school at Lake Garda, put Col. Bernasconi in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Velocita e Navigazione | 5/8/1933 | See Source »

A familiar suggestion from suggesters like George Bernard Shaw (see p. 20) is that government by parliaments and congresses would be vastly improved, frightful volumes of government time-wasting, nonsense, repetition and bigotry eliminated, if nations would install special broadcasting stations to let all citizens hear and judge everything said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Radio Stymie | 4/3/1933 | See Source »

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