Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: The rule regarding snakes has not been rescinded, as the mats went directly to the electrotyper. The editorial department did not see the "Bungle" page until the color section was printed. While my antipathy to the species is tremendous, it does not extend to the point of the confiscation of entire press runs. The "Toonerville Trolley" cartoon of last Saturday was omitted by the eagle-eyed feature editor because of its snake contents, and the foreman of the electrotype department has assured me no more snakes will get past...
...origin of the anti-snake rule came ten years ago when I was assistant managing editor; before that time beginning in 1900 thirty years ago I had in the capacity of telegraph editor, city editor, news editor and acting managing editor, done my bit to keeping down the free publicity for snakes, but not always with complete success. Until the Bungle comic page of two weeks ago the record over the last ten years had been perfect. I have always disliked snakes and I have seldom met others, especially women, who did not share to some extent this feeling...
...HARVEY JOHNSON Philadelphia, Pa -TIME queried Publisher Longan about the anti-snake rule on his Kansas City Star and Times, and its fracture last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 18). The communication here printed is his reply, received by TIME too late for incorporation in last week's Star-Times snake story...
...Wooster, Ohio, Allen Manson, 17, found a blue racer snake coiled around his neck, bit the reptile until it relaxed and freed...
...monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with a rawhide loop at the end, like a dog-catcher's dog- catcher. When the snake finds itself cornered, it will make...