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Hunters. In Wheeler, Ore., an excited hunter stumbled, fell when a flock of geese honked overhead. His gun went off, bagged three. In Pittsfield, Mass., a hunter fired his shotgun at a squirrel in a tree, missed, brought down four raccoons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 17, 1941 | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...rambling West Redding, Conn. farm house of a 64-year-old spinster named Katherine S. Dreier who has painted, collected and talked about modern art for almost 30 years. One of modern art's U.S. pioneer converts, massive, hemp-haired Katherine Dreier stored away abstractions like a Connecticut squirrel hoarding nuts for a hard winter. Other later and richer art squirrels sometimes, got bigger and tastier nuts than Katherine. But her hoard contained more different kinds than any body else's in the U.S. Unable to house it properly on her farm, even though she built an extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Katherine & Saidie | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...They were watching for a sight of 150 planes headed for an "attack" on New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, other East Coast cities. Spotted at five-mile intervals throughout the endangered territory, which cut inland 150 miles, they were haphazardly equipped with everything from scythes and squirrel rifles to radios and binoculars. But their chief defensive weapon was the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Wings Over Manhattan | 10/20/1941 | See Source »

...Yard squirrel came to the aid of three damsels in distress yesterday morning, when he ran up a laundry salesman's pant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chivalrous Squirrel Protects Maidens, Routs Salesman | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...angry rodent sealed his vertebrae, the frightened laundryman stripped off his coat and was starting on his shirt when the squirrel shot out of his slcove. When he had recovered his composure, the Radcliffe prospects were far in the distance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Chivalrous Squirrel Protects Maidens, Routs Salesman | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

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