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...South Bend, Ind., hearing that the city zoo wanted a pair of bald eagles, two South Benders went afield and obtained two large, bald birds from a farmer named MacMillan. A patriotic judge fined Farmer MacMillan $13 for violating the Federal law against taking captive the National Bird. A zoologist helped Farmer MacMillan recover his $13 by identifying the National Birds as buzzards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

LABOR SPEAKS FOR ITSELF ON RELIGION -A Symposium Edited by Jerome Davis -Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Labor Looks at Religion | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

BALLOON-A Comedy in Four Acts- Padriac Colum-Macmillan ($2). Caspar rents his telescope in the Square (Act 1) in Megalapolis, a city much like Dublin. He deserts his trade to do a heroic thing: to go into the Hotel Daedalus, first to its Cafe (Act 2), then higher to its Hall of Palms (Act 3), then finally to its Roof Garden (Act 4). In all three places he asks this question: "Is a man born a hero or does he become a hero by doing heroic things?" In the Cafe, when a woman eyes him through a lorgnette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Hero | 7/1/1929 | See Source »

EMPEROR FRANCIS JOSEPH OF AUSTRIA. A Biography?Joseph Redlich?Macmillan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Empty Gesture | 6/3/1929 | See Source »

LITANY OF WASHINGTON STREET-Vachel Lindsay-Macmillan ($3). A curious potpourri of U. S. lore, in rhythmic U. S. language, which ranks Walt Whitman with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln as a patriot, and proposes to celebrate his birthday (May 31) "with new great maypole dances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Good Life | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

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