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Then, with the stamping, straight-legged step of geese, came the first of 19 thrilling INFANTRY BATTALIONS and 13 ARTILLERY BATTALIONS who were soon to star the Rhineland with nine GLORIOUS GARRISONS. In Cologne ecstasy was indescribable as soldiers, Soldiers, SOLDIERS with red car nations peeping from their belts came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Glorious Garrisons | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

Meanwhile a deplorable clerical accident caused Director Barber and his staff their most acute embarrassment of the week. FTP Vaudeville Production 4-A was booked to appear at Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School, while Production 3-A was to be sent to amuse U. S. soldiers stationed on Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Double-Jeopardy | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

The water chevrotain (Hyemoschus aquaticus) is Africa's only example of the so-called "mouse-deer"' of Asia, a deer-legged, rabbit-sized water animal which swims or wades about for its food.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Paradise Lost | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

Sixty million years ago-the dawn of their Age-Titanoides was the biggest of mammals, about the size of a polar bear. Stout, thick-legged, big-tailed, weighing half a ton, probably a fine swimmer, Titanoides liked swamps, crushed lush water plants in his none too capable teeth. Prior to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Old Mammal . | 1/20/1936 | See Source »

Harvard's long-legged Yankee President James Bryant Conant is rapidly proving himself as able a money-getter as his canny predecessor, Abbott Lawrence Lowell. While pocketing with one hand the $2,000,000 gift of Gloveman Lucius Nathan Littauer for a Graduate School of Public Administration (TIME, Dec...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Social Animal | 1/6/1936 | See Source »

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