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...CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Another brisk, shrewdly plotted and forthrightly told Perry Mason story, in which the adroit lawyer-sleuth cooperates with an intelligent and wary police lieutenant. Mason's analysis of feline antics supplies the payoff clue to an elusive killer and a pair of carefully contrived murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Crime | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Lowlander was Lucien Brouha, Belgian Physiologist who arrived on the same boat as the Duke and Duchess. Lately he has been living-on-a-gallop between the Fatigue Laboratory and Washington, where his knowledge of the scientific aspects of feeding Europe has been as welcome as milk to a kitten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 4/9/1941 | See Source »

...Toto shuffled coyly across her cage and played with her black & white kitten Principe. Gargantua sulked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Recognition Scene | 3/3/1941 | See Source »

Purr. In Winchester, Va., Robert Wilt complained about the whine in his motor. Mechanics took out a kitten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 10, 1941 | 2/10/1941 | See Source »

Should the U. S. become friends with the Axis? "Americans never can and never will do that. . . . No nation can appease the Nazis. No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. ... A nation can have peace with the Nazis only at the price of total surrender." He described the Nazi regime in language stripped of both sentiment and profanity: ". . . In their background the concentration camp and the servants of God in chains. . . . Shootings and chains and concentration camps are not simply the transient tools but the very altars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The President Speaks | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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