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...confused with sober, middle-aged Sculptor Robert Aitken or able, young TIME-FORTUNE Photographer Russell Aikins is Ceramist Russell Barnett Aitken. Son of David Aitken, electric ty coon, he inherited his interest in animals from his father, who started life as a fur trader at Rat Portage in the Rainy River country, Ontario. At the age of nine he was modeling clay robins, baking them by an open fire. He loved to skin weasels so that he might study their muscular structure. To study ceramics Russell Aitken went to the Cleveland Art School rather than an Eastern university...
...more than a month, churchmen and pacifist organizations have been rat-tat-tatting the White House with protests against the forthcoming naval maneuvers in the Pacific (TIME, April 8). Out of this fleet operation involving 177 ships, 447 planes and covering 5,000,000 sq. mi. of seaways, pious people feared, might come the incident which would plunge the U. S. into war with Japan. By last week pacifist pressure had grown so great that the Navy Department for the first time in many a year was obliged to say something, do something...
Said Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast, of her troubles in keeping the White House: "Pipes will leak at frequent intervals and rats and mice like old buildings, regardless of tradition. Two friends of mine, sitting on the South Porch at breakfast one summer morning, tried to reassure themselves that a squirrel ran across the floor and refused to admit until they were safely upstairs that they had seen a large rat...
Author Strachey, branded a "foreign rat" by the Hearst Press, was delivering the 64th lecture of his current U. S. tour when Federal agents and local constabulary appeared at the North Shore Congregation Israel Synagog in Glencoe, Ill. Respectfully they waited until he finished, then served a deportation warrant. It charged that Author Strachey entered the U. S. "by means of false and misleading statements," had since declared himself a Communist. Chirped delighted Author Strachey, who planned to leave for England in two weeks anyway: "A dramatic nourish to the end of my lecture tour...
...certain biological features made the latter accomplishment more deadly to its perpetrators and spectators, the Colonel had to resort to two fearsome six-shooters before the partially defenceless animal dropped dead at sunset. Mr. Hoeing, on the other hand, might have been a caveman, for he encountered the late rat in truly primeval fashion...