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On the rim of northern Zululand's subtropical bush, an army of hunters stood poised for the greatest game hunt in South African history. This week, at a signal from Scientist Gilles De Kock, they would raise their guns and assagais (spears), and plunge into the jungle. Quarry: the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Tsetse War | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

What is a man without money to do when he must look at his only son lying in bed paralyzed from waist to feet? Quiet, hard-working John Edwin Byers of Chanute, Kans. found his own desperate answer. He put a hunting rifle in his battered Ford sedan, drove off...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: For a Jury | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Kansas authorities began combing the countryside for a quiet man who drove a 1934 Ford sedan. When the trail led to John Byers, they found it hard to believe that he was a bank robber. He had lived frugally, worked hard, first as a pumping-station oiler, then as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: For a Jury | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Clubs & Spears. There was a struggle. A mounted cop wrested a U.S. flag from a marcher. Strikers tried to pull policemen off their horses. Police sticks whacked at heads and bodies. Result: one striker in a hospital; seven men arrested.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Riot Act | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

By Homer's time, the bloody, bull-roaring rites of Knossos were a memory, and the hell-for-leather chariot cavalry and iron-pointed spears of the savage Dorians (the last great wave of northern barbarians to inundate Greece) had driven the Goddess into hiding. Their god, and Homer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gods and Men | 3/11/1946 | See Source »

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