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Thus, in his Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg, Poet William Wordsworth solemnized the deaths of Poet-Critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Essayist Charles Lamb. Inhabitants of London's historic Inner Temple saw Lamb in a somewhat different context. Sometimes the door of his house near the Thames would open, and out would come Essayist Lamb and his sister Mary, carrying a strait jacket, and quietly crying. All Inner Temple Lane knew that meant that Mary was about to go insane again, and that Charles was taking her to the safety of the local asylum. They also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frolic, Gentle Lamb | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

Folding Fodder. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Jack D. Hogg sued for divorce, tearfully complained that her cowboy husband had given his horse a $10 bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 28, 1942 | 9/28/1942 | See Source »

Hoosier Law. In Fort Wayne, Ind., when Artemus Knuckles sued to get back a wandering pig which a neighbor had confiscated, his lawyer, David Hogg, cited a decision by Circuit Judge Martin L. Pigg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 14, 1941 | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

...medical practice for them. Today Dr. Oliver is the author of a three-volume treatise on earthworms, a subject on which he is acknowledged by many to be the world's No. 1 authority. His story was told last week in Nature Magazine by John Edwin Hogg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Praise for the Earthworm | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

...poison sprays. Oliver calls it his "soilution worm." In California and elsewhere there are several hundred farmers who have planted great batches of eggs, raised earthworm armies in their soil. Some years back, practically all of those farmers were staggering on the brink of bankruptcy. Today, says Chronicler Hogg, every one, without exception, is making healthy profits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Praise for the Earthworm | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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