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...stock manipulators. Millions of them had never sat on a flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had yet to sniff cocaine, snap at a waiter in the Stork Club, sue somebody for libel, own a Jaguar 3½-liter convertible, or pour a champagne cocktail over a blonde's shoulder blades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Other 99.4% | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

Bring 'Em Back Alive. In Syracuse, N.Y., Mayor Frank J. Costello* bit his lip and disclosed how things were at the zoo: the leopard had been there 20 years, and was secondhand at that; the jaguar had bitten off the leopard's tail; the lion not only had cataracts but was sharing his den with rabbits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 24, 1948 | 5/24/1948 | See Source »

...Composite badger, tapir and jaguar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time Current Affairs Test, Jun. 16, 1947 | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

...Anapolis through 100 miles of forests. He soon turned this into the state's best road. Down it last year the colony's trucks carried 30 different products to market-including 20,000 bags of sugar, 12,000,000 pounds of watermelon, 120,000 dozen eggs, 50 jaguar skins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Boom In the Backlands | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...filled twice daily with naked bathers splashing unselfconsciously in the brown waters. Since then he has visited the country almost every year, sketching the handsome tehuanas with their vivid costumes, necklaces of $20 gold pieces, and spectacular headloads of fruit and flowers. He has collected tribal jadeite masks and jaguar figurines, has painted the giant ancient basalt heads of La Venta, has written down the Italian-like speech of the formidable matriarchs of the market places. Result: an alluring book, rich with the Indian savor that is the best of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: South to Tehuantepec | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

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