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...will have no written record of the amazing exploits of William Sewall '97 because, as the 60-year-old adventurer explained yesterday, "If you told the story people would think you're a damned liar!" Only the animal heads in the Harvard Club of New York will remain as mute testimony of the hair breadth escapes of the big game hunter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLIRTING WITH DEATH JUST ROUTINE IN LIFE OF AFRICAN ADVENTURER | 10/15/1940 | See Source »

...pappy, but shore ez youah name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help me Gawd!" Young Ned Fulton recounts the impact of drought on his father, his sisters, his starving neighbors in their little grey houses. Love interest is Ned's tenderness for Milldy, a mute Ozark urchin. After a raid on the general store, in which Pop Fulton is shot, angry Ned leads the gaunt, drought-mad farmers to the county seat for a sit-down demonstration demanding Federal relief. Upshot is a wild battle between "Red"-fearing townsfolk and desperate rustics. Dozens of both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tellers of Tales | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...magnitude of world confusion could only be realized when the thousands of press dispatches, the millions of radio murmurings, and all the display of mute, invisible facts and forces were gathered into bald proximity. The persistent, patient rapping of Japan at the doors of French Indo-China (see p. 33) became really loud only when set near the ticking of the Balkans' time bomb (see p. 34); Almazán and Avila Camacho staring at each other angrily in Mexico (see p. 39), Smuts and Herzog doing the same in South Africa-these minor cockfights became significant potentials when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Ominous Presentiments | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

...know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid back, like a mute trying to make a speech. . . . The hyena dribbled, ate, vomited, and ate again; no sickness, still less any discomfort could diminish his voracity. The panther lay huddled in a corner of her cage, with staring fur and a look of mystery in her eyes. . . . Can the sufferings of animals reveal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Balzac for the Beasts? | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...Westport, Conn, home, normally cheerful Helen Adams Keller, famed blind deaf-mute, observed her 60th birthday as "a day of mourning." Through her secretary she explained: "The world is in such a state I cannot be gay by any manner of means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 8, 1940 | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

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