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...that he is the "World's Most Perfectly Developed Man" and poses for pictures in a simple leopard-skin loincloth (TIME, Feb. 10, 1936), inserted the following advertisement in the New York Times: "LIVE LEOPARD CUB WANTED; coat perfectly spotted. . . ." Explanation: Mr. Atlas was dissatisfied with his current pelt because it was irregularly marked...
...arrival in Cambridge, there hasn't been a Yale victory since 1933, that 14-13 major catastrophe last November; and perhaps most important of all, Albie Booth's last minutes drop kick which smashed the undefeated record of Barry Wood's team in 1931. Oh yes, a Bulldog pelt is always a welcome sight in the Crimson trophy room, but one was never more eagerly awaited than that belonging to this year's litter of "Ducky" Pond's invincible blue pups...
Then they get jobs as butler and maid, signing their own references, and each enslaves in the bonds of love the members of the family of the opposite sex. All is exceedingly merry until Commissar Gorotchenko appears. He has been immoderately unkind to both of them, and they pelt him with clever invective when he interviews them in the kitchen...
...fleas and lice cannot penetrate it. Each hair is tipped with black, slate blue about half its length, merging into a delicate pearl grey. Difficult to capture alive, chinchillas are shot by Indians with blow-guns using poisoned darts. The wound is only a pinprick, does not injure the pelt. Price of each pelt may be as low as $50 for a coarse, short-haired specimen, $500 for a particularly fine...
...Olive, Jr.; George W. Overton, Jr.; Arthur W. Page, Jr.; Donald G. Parrot; Robert M. Peebles; Samuel F. Peirce; John R. Richards; David Richardson; Russell J. Ryan, Jr.; Marion B. Seevers, Jr.; Robert H. Shepard; Kenneth M. Spence, Jr.; S. Harris Squibb; Robinson Stevens; Allen E. Susman; Peter Van Pelt; George H. Wadsworth; John A. Waldo, Jr.; Lawrence H. Waterman; James F. Whitehead, Jr.; Malcolm R. Wilkey; Hamlin L. Williston; Samuel N. Wolbach, 3d.; and William L. Wood...