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...showdown before Representatives, Senators, Capital correspondents and the President of the U. S. By week's end the TVA family row, like the Great Boyg which oppressed Ibsen's hero Peer Gynt, was beginning to seem a tantalizing something at once too big to ignore and too shapeless to grasp...
Twisted into shapeless scrap were the engine, cars, shovels. Boulders flew like buckshot with here and there a human leg or arm, some landing as much as a mile distant. When the storm had passed 55 lay dead, 201 injured. Stricken with horror, the newshawks rushed from their vantage point to become stretcher-bearers and ambulance drivers. Hundreds of weeping women surged to the mine's terraces, searched hysterically among mountains of debris for husbands and sweethearts. To begin an immediate in vestigation, the Governor of Antofagasta Province hurried to the scene, declared...
...incident a few months ago on the Riviera when the aides-de-camp of Edward of Wales noticed at the last moment that he was about to inspect a British warship bareheaded. As this was contrary to Navy rules and tradition, they hastily pressed upon H. R. H. a shapeless white hat which he angrily refused to wear (TIME, Sept...
...York Sun, quit the Stock Exchange to join the Navy during the Spanish-American War. In the service he developed arthritis which made him a life-long cripple. Despite his paralyzed hands he began to write short sketches and verses, illustrated them with simple, sinister drawings of shapeless men and beasts. He published a number of books, (God and My Father, Scenes From the Mesozoic), became a best seller last summer with Life With Father (TIME...
Divorced. James Thurber, 40, one-eyed New Yorker writer, amateur artist famed for his shapeless women and droopy men (TIME, Dec. 31); by Mrs. Althea A. Thurber; in Bridgeport, Conn. Grounds: that he drank, was unfaithful, often got in fights which he invariably lost...