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...Meantime, in Illinois, the Committee's Senator Clyde M. Reed, Republican, stalked the Kelly-Nash covert, with a reluctant Democratic Senator, Lister Hill, at his side. Senator Hill can outbay a Baskerville hound on occasion, but this was not one of them. While witnesses came forth to say that politicians bought the vote of flophouse residents for 25?, 50? or a shot of liquor, cynical Chicagoans watched with only half an eye. Too many times they had seen that covert drawn blank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Open Season | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

Possum In Elherton Ga. a hound named Buck incapacitated by a broke leg went hunting with Sheriff John Starke. Pushed in a wheelbarrow, he treed three possiums without once leaving his seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 28, 1940 | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...unseen friends, been ribbed to death, my pretty little wife isn't quite sure whether she wants to be seen with me in Public Places, and strangers write me that I am only one shade handsomer than that dude Angel the wrestler, but I have a hound dog that sure still thinks that I am kind of nice. So I don't care. And I'm not worried. And I am going to keep right on digging wells and probably getting spanked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1940 | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

That the R. A. F. was still well satisfied with its estimate of results in last fortnight's raid on Sylt was shown last week when the man who planned that attack was promoted. Lean, hound-jawed Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, 54, Commander in Chief of the Bomber Command, was made Inspector General of R. A. F. and one of its four Marshals. To make way for him, Sir Edward Leonard Ellington, 62, stepped out voluntarily.* Both men are air veterans of World War I, younger Sir Edgar having the more brilliant record as a fighting pilot. Sir Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Fights of the Week | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

...Book Three the idiot Ike Snopes falls in love with a cow. Mink Snopes murders a widower named Houston. The villagers, to cure the idiot of "stock-diddling," slaughter the cow and require him to eat of her. In a gruesome scene Houston's hound attacks Mink. Mink is caught and jailed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genius- | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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