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These engaging creatures are common sights to the summer vacationists at Phillip Island. They are protected by law and heavy fines are imposed upon anyone who harms them. In the daytime the Joey leads a rather somnolent existence, remaining comfortably curled up in a gum tree notch. At night they move about and eat the tender eucalyptus shoots which are their only food. Often, after dark, their heart-rending cry can be heard through the bush. A wail which is the very essence of anguish as a distraught mother seeks her lost offspring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Man of the Year (Cont'd) | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...wool from 92? to $1.01 per lb. In London, where one can speculate in dried flies and ant eggs, an all-time high was set for copra. The New York Journal of Commerce reported a rise in balsam copaiba, a tight market in gum benzoin and "no sign of any relief in the shortage of eucalyptus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Commotion in Commodities | 12/28/1936 | See Source »

...Baldwin is not alone in thinking she is right. He was last week the absolutely ideal Prime Minister to weather an English crisis by applying precisely those qualities of bulldog smugness which have strewn his career in foreign affairs with disaster after disaster and are today threatening to gum the works of British Rearmament and imperil the Empire (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante). Again & again Mr. Baldwin has told the House of Commons that "my lips are sealed" until this has become a 1936 British byword for hypocrisy. Came last week, however, the Supreme Crisis in which the curiosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Baldwin the Magnificent | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

...lobby of the executive offices. He referred to the President as "the boss," called others, including Cabinet members, by their first names and chatted in equally friendly fashion with Ambassadors and messenger boys. Although he had a dinner suit to wear on dress occasions he incorrigibly chewed gum no matter how elegant his surroundings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Personal Loss | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

Byron Haines, Washington's lefthanded, left-footed, drop-kicking halfback wears custom-made football shoes, and in them has become the best open-field runner on the Coast. Jim ("Sugar") Cain, campus representative for Beech Nut chewing gum, has played every position in Lhe backfield this season, functioned effectively in each. Washington has represented the West in the Rose Bowl twice before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

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