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...flames mount. Baluk, his stoic face agonized, lays by his tom-tom and draws his robe over his head in the inferno. But then the sentinels' signal fires flare. Baluk is dragged off the pyre still alive to lead the tribe against the milling, trampling, stampeding, incredible game herd. Dagwan is sent away for "the slow death" (starvation) while the tribe feasts and laughs and toboggans. The silent enemy, Hunger, snarls his defeat from the lowering arctic storm-scud...
...special apartments at the Poona jail, the special herd purchased to provide the Saint with goat's milk, the special chef hired to pamper the prisoner's taste (TIME, May 12), not even all these luxuries sufficed. Poona was deemed too warm. By means so secret that no detail leaked out, the prisoner was spirited to Purandhar Military Sanitarium at the salubrious altitude of 4,500 ft. There every day, whether he liked it or not, St. Gandhi received a tender but thorough physical examination by a corps of British physicians. As during the illness of George...
...proper western elements-mortgaged ranch, murdered cattleman, girl from the east, rescuer on horseback, crooked sheriff. It is all played humorlessly but fairly effectively by Richard Arlen, Mary Brian and a villain named Fred Kohler. Best shots: Harry Green as a Jewish cattle-rustler; a scene in which a herd of wild horses rushes through a fence and over a sloping plain...
...system out of its almost medieval sloth, and to coordinate penology with science. Psychology and research have discovered that a prisoner's future record will depend but little on the crime he was incarcerated for, but more importantly on his home environment, his habits, and his character. Thus to herd in one ensemble first offenders, murderers, and speeders results merely in inoculating all with the anti-social virus of the most experienced and hardened lifer. The first necessity is segregation, according to possibilities of cure, for crime is largely a disease. Men with appendicitis are not placed in contagion-bearing...
...their migration, Pribilof seals parade in pairs or singly, not in a herd. They can stay under water for seven hours without coming up for air; after heavy storms sailors have seen them on the surface resting and wallowing in the waves. They feed upon squid, Alaska pollack, other small fish...