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...could only pick out a few people who didn't blend completely into the shadows. In the midst of the beblam, rabid fans of Lena's were Bill Harrington and Pete Holm. They have a few things to say consequently which Colonel, James Worsley should hear. The Colonel, besides not relishing the lineup and contact, can't appreciate all forms or art, its seems. If you ask those in the know, he's afraid Cootie Williams boogie would "send" him against his will...

Author: By Jack T. Shindler, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 9/26/1944 | See Source »

Many North Dakota Republicans see a dismal choice of evils between Gerald Nye's rabid, unrepentant isolationism and the Langer machine's shady political reputation. With evangelical zeal, the state's businessmen, mostly political amateurs, are backing a third candidate: able Lynn U. Stambaugh, 53, onetime (1941-42) National Commander of the American Legion. Trim, hearty Legionnaire Stambaugh, a successful Fargo lawyer and long-time advocate of U.S. participation in world affairs, has invested in 53 red-white-& -blue billboards for a high-pressure campaign. But the grain growers and stockmen who cast most of North Dakota...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eighteenth Year | 6/19/1944 | See Source »

...history than those between noon and 3 o'clock of November 14, 1902, when Carrie Nation made a whirlwind campaign to woo the student body from rum and nicotine. The Kansas hatchet swinger, who personally broke enough whiskey bottles (full) to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating their midday meal. She had heard that ham was occasionally served with champagne sauce and that she had seen a menu which listed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Carrie Nation Cursed Vice At Blue-Book Sweat-Shop | 6/9/1944 | See Source »

...Bronx, where 22 people have been bitten by rabid dogs in the last few weeks. Though there have been no deaths, New York City (which has the densest canine population in the world-600,000 dogs, 30,000 dog bites a year) ordered that all stray Bronx dogs be destroyed. Promptly Bronx citizens beat up all the dogcatchers, one so badly that he had to stay home next day. After that, the dogcatchers had police protection. When 812 Bronx dogs (80 with licenses) had been destroyed, feeling ran so high that the city set aside a vacant building where licensed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mad Dog! | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

...Rabid dogs, cats, rats, foxes, hogs were also alarming Maryland, Michigan, Florida, New Jersey, Colorado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mad Dog! | 6/5/1944 | See Source »

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