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...yards a hunting bow handled by someone who knows how is more deadly than a short-barreled revolver. Famed U. S. hunting bowmen: Captain Cassius Styles who every year kills mountain lions and cuts yew in Oregon; the late Dr. Saxton Pope who killed African lions, mountain lions, brown and grizzly bears; Arthur H. Young who one moonlit African night buried a shaft feather-deep in the heart of a 600 Ib. lion which died in 20 seconds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bow & Arrow | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

Natural enemies are Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden and New York's Society for the Suppression of Vice, founded by the late famed reformer Anthony Comstock and now headed by thin-lipped John Saxton Sumner. As early as 1905 Publisher Macfadden ran afoul of the Society because of a "Health Rally" in Madison Square Garden. Last week occurred another climax in the feud: Mr. Sumner's Society was awarded $10,000 damages in a $100,000 libel suit against Mr. Macfadden's tabloid Evening (porno) Graphic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Sumner v. Macfadden | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...Manhattan that expert in pornography, John Saxton Sumner of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, admitted sadly that he could do nothing about a stamp issued by the Spanish Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prix De Rome | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

Birthday. Major S. Willard Saxton, only living member of Brook Farm;* in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 19, 1929 | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

...chemists for 400 years, since first they made gunpowder and perfume in Torno, Italy. He could not have learned, however, that the company would move to Cleveland after the Civil War. and would there prosper mightily producing fertilizers, zinc metal, zinc dust, explosives, aspirin, until finally, under Grandson Thomas Saxton Grasselli, it would have 22 factories and assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Friable Messes | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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