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Jacare took to his new task with simple dignity. He had always idolized a legendary jangadeiro called "Dragon of the Seas" who kidnapped slaves, hid them safely from posses in the hinterland. If the Dragon could free slaves from slavery, figured Jacare, he could free the jangadeiros from exploitation. And...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: End of a Hero | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Over-cautiousness has also kept men from hearing about excellent risks. The Navy has not officially announced that the Japanese course at California will be repeated, nor has the Army announced any future sessions of its metrology course at M. I. T. But the officials connected with both have apparently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: One-Man Gang | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

The Advocate reopened the question this fall with an invitation to Miss Sheridan to become an honorary editor, but nothing definite has come of that yet. The next chapter is actually supplied by the young and shapely Senorita Montez, like her predecessors, a semi-star who hopes to let Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Major H for Hollywood | 10/31/1941 | See Source »

Started in 1931 by politically-minded Eugene Biscailuz, Los Angeles County Sheriff and unofficial gladhander, dude-riding posses gained momentum after San Francisco, not to be outdone, formed a mounted posse for the opening (1937) of its Golden Gate Bridge. Today, nearly every self-respecting California sheriff has a posse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horsy Posses | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

Occasionally they are of some help. The Los Angeles posse, which includes Cinemactor Buck Jones, Oilman Earl Gilmore and 20 assorted millionaires, have twice within the past two years gone into remote mountain regions to recover the bodies of air-crash victims. But, for the most part, sheriff's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horsy Posses | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

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