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Cornwall's huntsmen stiffened in their saddles. "I never heard a hunted fox scream in my life," snorted Captain George Percival Williams, Master of the Four Burrow Hunt. Captain Williams stoutly denied that the fox was alive when the hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: For the Kill | 2/21/1949 | See Source »

According to rules governing the award of the prize, established by the late Percival Wood Clement, governor of Vermont, each essay should not exceed 3000 words in length. The papers must be submitted by April 1.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Need Money? High I.Q. Men To Get Some | 1/7/1949 | See Source »

Almost a thousand dollars will be the prize awarded to the lucky author of the best essay on the "Principles of the Constitution" in this year's first Percival Wood Clement Prize Contest, open to Juniors and Seniors.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $983.12 Essay Contest . . . | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Down with All Quacks! The Journal lost its first suit, which was filed by the makers of Wine of Cardui, a herb-and-alcohol mixture advertised as a cure for "any sort of female trouble," but widely sold to men who drank it straight). The A.M.A. considered the loss (if...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Angry Voice | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

Negroes have been elected (and admitted) to Congress, but never to its press galleries. Some technicality or other in the admission rules always kept them out. Last week a Negro journalist finally made the grade. By unanimous vote of its governing committee, the periodical press gallery admitted Percival L. Prattis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Admit One | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

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