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...solid hit. Earlier the same night Herbert had told his family: "I think we're going to be burgled tonight." Another hit. Home from the theater, the Herberts found their apartment rifled of ration books, gas coupons, radio, clock, Mrs. Herbert's jewels, her leopard coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 29, 1946 | 7/29/1946 | See Source »

...purely magic masks were past history. The Museum's leopard-like Devil .Dancer (see cut) resembles some still in use in Ceylon. And the Eskimo King of the Salmon (see cut), a driftwood disc which looked like neither fish, flesh nor fowl, was but one face of a still-living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: False Faces | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...people." Blushes & Raw Meat. Africa was full of surprises. The "natives," rigorously segregated in so-called "locations," were ''far more politically aware than my fellow Negroes in America." Eslanda "blushed with shame" when she recalled the Harlem-dweller's mental picture of his "African brothers ... in leopard skins, waving spears and eating raw meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Our Old Home | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

...high wire. There are clowns in all sizes and shapes, and plenty of animals. Trained seals, tooting My Country, 'Tis Of Thee, manage to be irresistibly funny. For the first time the big wild animal act displays six statuesque chorines inside the cage, one of whom wraps a leopard around her bare shoulders. And down in the basement Mr. & Mrs. Gargantua carry on one of the greatest hate affairs on record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Signs of Spring | 4/16/1945 | See Source »

Martha Raye, bray-voiced cinemactress, reported to police that thieves had broken into her Hollywood home, made off with: 1) a $6,000 mink coat, 2) a $1,500 silver fox coat, 3) a $350 blue fox coat, 4) a $300 leopard coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 5, 1945 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

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