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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been, it is certain he received the thrill of his unimportant lifetime to find himself in the spotlight, which is all he started out to do in the first place. Whether he jumped or fell, is immaterial now. The fact remains that he was murdered by a sensation-hungry pack of human wolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...International Psychotherapy Congress at Oxford, England, 43-year-old Hypnotist Francis Völgyesi of Budapest, who has put to sleep all the monkeys, foxes, swans and lions in the Budapest Zoo, told reporters how he once gave the eye to a pack of 18 hungry wolves. "I simply got the leader under control," he said, "and then waved the pack back just as if they were soldiers at a drill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 22, 1938 | 8/22/1938 | See Source »

...Going to be Rich, however, is made really tops by the superb assurance-acquired before innumerable real audiences in London and provincial theatres-with which Miss Fields does her specialties. High point of the picture: the Fields rendering of a Boer folk song, Vat Jon Goed en Trek, Ferreira (Pack Up and Go, Ferreira), as a request number in a Johannesburg dive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 18, 1938 | 7/18/1938 | See Source »

...were somewhat amazed that you were able to pack so much scientific material in such a little space [account of Continental Oil Co.'s world's deepest well, TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 11, 1938 | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

...Grant Shepherd arrived with his mother, four sisters, two brothers, various relatives, two nurses, a doctor, four dogs. His father was manager of the ancient silver mines whose 70 miles of workings honeycombed the hills. The family had come overland from Washington, D. C., by train, wagon and pack mule, to make their home in Batopilas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: El Patroncito | 7/11/1938 | See Source »

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