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...ships snake about as nimbly as Fred Astaire. swaying from side to side with rhythmic ebullience. The Japs, boiling mad, fail to attack the troop-laden transports, concentrate instead on the escorts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Snooper Shoot | 11/29/1943 | See Source »

Grape-Happy Orphan. Probably the highest-paid bird in the world ($500 a radio performance), Raffles belongs to the explorer-lecturers, Mr. & Mrs. Carveth Wells. Mrs. Wells adopted Raffles in Malaya four years ago after its mother was killed by a snake. Mrs. Wells worked hard on the bird's diction, avoiding profanity, and taught Raffles to speak only on cue (a process involving bribery with the bird's favorite food-grapes). A major crisis developed when Raffles picked up a Southern drawl from the Wells's Negro maid, but that crisis passed when the maid picked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: A Bird | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...under the tub was presently watching his house and barns burn to the ground. In Manhattan, the emergency ward of a local hospital treated the facial lacerations of a nearsighted youth who had caught one of his pet boa constrictors trying to escape. The boy had peered into the snake's eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...shock to meet his first hross-a cat-whiskered cross between a snake, a seal and a stoat. It was just as much of a shock for the hross to meet a hmãn. Fortunately, they were both hnau (thinking animals) and after jointly slaying a hnakra, a jabberwockative monster, the hross made Ransom his blood hnakrapunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Hm | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...upper reaches of the Rio Tapajóz. The other will work among the tributaries of the Rio Xingú. Later they plan a rendezvous on the water divide. The final round will take them down off the grassy plateau and forest country, then farther north through snake, armadillo and alligator-infested jungles to Santarem, 125 miles south of the equator on the steaming Amazon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: East of the River of Doubt | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

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