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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...post-mortems on Su Lin had not been finished when Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith arrived in Chengtu, China with four giant pandas, three of them male cubs, which he had found in Western Szechuan Province. An American banker in China who turned big-game hunter more than 15 years ago, gaunt, bespectacled Floyd Smith has spent most of his 55 years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Pandas Galore | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

There is no post office in Bug Tussle and nobody in Bug Tussle has a telephone. Almost everybody is almost everybody else's cousin. The citizens of Bug Tussle present a united front to the world. Two months ago two postal inspectors from Birmingham arrived to ask a few questions. It took rather longer than they thought, for nobody was at all cooperative. But last week they finally arrested seven people for using the mails to defraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bug Tussle | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

John McL. Clark, 27, Washington Post editorial writer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Nine Fellows | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...publisher but knew of this profitable friendship between two stubborn individualists, and two years ago David Stern's New York Post flatly described Mr. Block as a "Hearst stooge." But since 1931 Mr. Block has reduced his holdings to Newark, Pittsburgh and Toledo, says that what he runs he owns. So Mr. Block's grey fringe bristled when Robert S. Allen, sharpshooting Washington columnist, wrote last September in the Nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Silent Suit | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Toledo Times and Blade Los Angeles Express, Milwaukee Sentinel, Newark Star-Eagle, Brooklyn Standard-Union, Duluth Herald and News-Tribune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Silent Suit | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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