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What's in it for Me? will rejoice readers: It narrates Harry Bogen's decline & fall. Harry is such a skunk-like character that in the first book many a reader may have been too sickened to notice Author Weidman's strong disapproval of his hero. In this sequel Author Weidman gives Harry a moral shellacking which only an idiot could miss. But before Harry goes down he puts on a fast show. After loafing three months on his last crooked earnings, Harry decides to bounce Martha and go back into the dress business. The trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Smart Guy's Fall | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

...Skunked by a Skunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: McNamara Again Blasts Harvard In Meeting of Cambridge council | 10/26/1938 | See Source »

Bowling along outside of Nevada, Mo., one night last week, a "Katy" (Missouri, Kansas and Texas) air-conditioned train ran over a skunk, got skunk into its air-conditioning machinery. Passengers were inconvenienced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...were still chuckling over capers of another sort. Henry Field,** grandnephew of the late Marshall Field and curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Capers | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...WANT A SKUNK...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 3/29/1938 | See Source »

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