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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April 1922, acting Captain Grant Williams of the New York City police department was imported to Rockland County, handed a skull and other bones found on Cheesecock Mountain and asked to solve the mystery of its presence there. Sterilizing the skull, he placed it on an artificial neck made out of a curtain pole shaved down to fit the opening of the spinal column. Inside the skull on either side of the pole, he wedged two radio tubes to hold the head steady. The other end of the pole he fitted in a stand made of a soap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1936 | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Last year Benito Mussolini truculently held Italy's war games on the country's North frontier. Last week he staged this year's war games in mid-peninsula among the mountain crags near Naples, which was about as near as the stormy Dictator has ever come to a Peace gesture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: War Games & Mothers | 9/7/1936 | See Source »

...MOUNTAIN AND THE PLAIN-Herbert Gorman-Farrar & Rinehart ($3). Long (653-pp.), slow-moving, historical novel of the French Revolution, revolving around a 21-year-old hero who saw everyone from Tom Paine to Lafayette, and everything from the fall of the Bastille to the Execution of Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Aug. 24, 1936 | 8/24/1936 | See Source »

...subscriptions to move Vulcan from his ignominious post at. the Fair Grounds. John Henry Adams was the first to join. Last May WPA went to the rescue with $44,000 in cash and the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co. hastily offered a five-acre plot on top of Red Mountain two-and-a-half miles outside the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Iron Man | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

Alain was blond, handsome, a little priggish, a pampered only son. He bought Saha at a cat show, raised her for three years, delighted in her quiet, affectionate tricks. He had a few misgivings when he married Camille, who was modern, athletic, informed, impulsive, changeable as a mountain stream. But he lost them during their honeymoon and only began to harbor a secret resentment at Camille's plans for remaking their house. While it was being done over they lived on the ninth floor of a Paris apartment, to which Alain soon found an excuse for bringing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nine Lives | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

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