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Sirs: Some one pulled your leg re John Stink, hermit Osage-(TIME, March 29). The atavistic old fellow has not just come down from his tree to claim $200,000. It's quite a story. Probably too long for publication in the Letters Column, but it will be interesting to your staff...
...John Stink's Story Sirs: How come, TIME? In the issue for March 29, I read that "last week" John Stink, wealthy Osage, emerged from a 50-year retirement in the woods. In March 1933, as a member of the Board of Indian Commissioners (an unpaid commission of more than 60 years' standing, since abolished by the President on the ground of economy), I was visiting in the Osage country and called at the log cabin home of John Stink or Ha-ta-moie, whose emergence from the hills was hy no means a new story at that...
Against three operators of a restaurant "trade association" and four officers of waiters' and cafeteria workers' unions, Prosecutor Dewey's chunky right-hand man, William B. Herlands, argued a total of 182 charges of conspiracy, extortion and attempted extortion. By stink-bombings, strikes and threats of strikes, he asserted, they had forced the terrorized proprietors of The Hollywood, French Casino, Brass Rail, Jack Dempsey's, St. Regis, Lindy's and many a lesser restaurant and cafeteria to join their "association," pay tribute of some $2,000,000 per year. Not seriously disputing the picture drawn...
...Vivien Leigh). Unfortunately, in its whole handsomely photographed gamut of daring deeds, the picture contains nothing as sporting as such a mythical contest might be. The onesidedness of Ingolby's encounters, combined with a certain stuffiness not wholly mitigated by having the Queen use such locutions as "You stink of fish" to her subjects, prevent Ingolby's escapades from being as exciting as those of his Russian rival. Typical shot: loyal Ingolby at a Spanish dinner party, evading a toast to England's downfall...
...Stuff. The possibilities of gas as a military weapon were thought of long before the World War. During the U. S. Civil War, Brigadier General W. N. Pendleton of the Confederate Army wrote to an ordnance officer asking whether "stink shells" which he had seen mentioned in a newspaper could not be used in 12-pounder howitzers and whether "the explosion can be combined with suffocating effect of certain offensive gases." The stink shells were not tried. At The Hague Conference of 1899 an agreement banning the use of gas projectiles was signed by 24 nations including Germany. After...