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...distance those childish voices would one day reach. For Charlie, Harry and Russell have since grown into the foremost trumpeters of Hollywood's bizarre and boisterous activities. They are publicity men. It is their job to keep the world aware of movies, beglamored about movie stars, and thus herd in admissions to the box office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 23, 1940 | 12/23/1940 | See Source »

...studying lightning flashes by reclining on a Los Angeles curbstone in a pouring rain, was rushed to headquarters by suspicious police. Famed paleontologists like Barnum Brown of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and Chester Stock of California Institute of Technology were called in for advice. A herd of pet iguanas and a baby alligator wriggled over the Burbank lot, while animators studied their lizardy movements. By the time a complete cast had been rounded up for the Rite, the Disney zoo contained eusthenopterons, brachiosaurs, brontosaurs, plesiosaurs, mesosaurs, diplodocuses, triceratopses, pterodactyls, trachodons, struthiomimuses, stegosaurs, archaeopteryxes, pteranodons, tyrannosaurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Disney's Cinesymphony | 11/18/1940 | See Source »

...long, are the wolves of the sea. Dr. Andrews had heard that killers relish the tongues of other and bigger whales, often tear them out alive. He never believed it until he saw it done. Off the coast of Korea, a pack of killers bore down on a herd of California grey whales, which are about 50 ft. long. The greys were paralyzed with terror. "I watched a grey whale turn on its back with flippers outspread and lie helpless at the surface. Rushing at full speed, a killer put his nose against the whale's lips, forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Believe-lt-Or-Nots | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...Flivvers herd fireflies down the sumac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...Sophomores, they performed creditably right up to the Yale debacle, but they are still waiting to get their first important victory. Close observers can foresee a mild Crimson renaissance this year, but if Dick Harlow can herd his Johnnies through to more victories than defeats, he deserves a croix de guerre...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: SUICIDAL SCHEDULE SLATED FOR UNPROVED GRIDDERS | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

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