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Spend an afternoon in the charming, alcoholic atmosphere of this scientific ivory-tower of zoological knowledge. Pore through a few of its beautifully bound editions on the "sex-life of the mollusk" or "strange customs of the Chinese spider." The reward is boundless; the effort minute...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

...took to arguing with the fans, bowing deeply to right & left when he was hissed, waggling a finger like a 10-20-30 villain. Soon Kentucky's basketball crowds grew tenfold. The whole countryside now turns out to see the hated "Man in the Brown Suit" and his "pore li'l mountain boys." So far this season, Kentucky has lost only two games: to Ohio State and Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Basketball's Big Year | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

...Gene never had much trouble getting reelected. His wild political rallies, with free fish fries and watermelon, panicked Georgia's rural voters. His traveling stooges, including the famed Tree-Climbing Haggards, yipped encouragement to his glowering, grammar-proof oratory. He showed his red galluses and his love for pore folks. The busy Palace Guard, working less spectacularly, machine-tooled many another vote. Ol' Gene rode high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Exit Gene Talmadge | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...trying to make a living for my family and it ended in death for me. You take big people as the President, Governors, judge, their children dont never have to suffer. They has plenty of money. . . . The penitentiary all over the United States are fulp of people ho was pore tried to work and have something, couldnt so that maid them steel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chances | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...could proudly observe the full effects of Nazi propaganda. Though the Bulgars would probably refuse to fight against Russia, they are in a mood to tackle the Turks the moment Hitler says so. In the Grand Hotel, diplomats, students and businessmen gather every noon to discuss the coming attack, pore over maps put out by a local Fascist organization showing Istanbul (called "Tsarigrad-City of the Kings") as part of the new Bulgaria. But Berlin-made propaganda has not impressed everyone. Said the newspaper Zora: "We are struck by the confused psychological conceptions of a small section of our intelligentsia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BALKANS: Down the Danube | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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