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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some years ago polished Card Shark Ely Culbertson, scrawny titan of contract bridge, talked his way into the Tall Story Club. His tall story: a nightmarish bridge game in which Satan sat at his left. When Ely, holding the red & black dream hand- spades AKQJ, hearts AKQ, diamonds AKQ, clubs AKQ-bid a grand slam in no trump, Satan doubled. When Ely redoubled, Satan grinned impishly, reeled off a hellish new green suit to take all the tricks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Super-Bridge | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

This dream, one of 400 which a patient transcribed for Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung, is one of thousands of fantasies which have been analyzed by the great onetime disciple of Sigmund Freud. Last year, lecturing at Yale University on "Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy," tall, magnetic Dr. Jung let his listeners in on some of the dreams his work is made of. Last week his views were given wider currency, when his three closely-reasoned, fact-packed lectures* were published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Symbols & Religion | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Born Marcilino Manuel Graca in Portugal, "Daddy" Grace is a tall, dark, long-haired religionist who believes in the orthodox Lord, preaches a Pentecostal faith with some refinements of his own invention. His headquarters and his respectable-looking home are in Washington, but in the past seven years his greatest success has been in Baltimore, fourth largest Negro city in the U. S. "Bishop" Grace calls his sect the "House of Prayer For All People,"* has claimed from 300,000 to 1,000,000 followers. In his 100 churches, pastors exhort the faithful for contributions, and during services, which lean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Grace to Harlem | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Mexican road runner is a long-beaked, shaggy-feathered bird about the size of a partridge. The road runner is death on rattlesnakes, and tall tales are told of its prowess: that it traps its victim in a ring of cactus, hops in and out, pecking holes in the snake's hide, then plants cactus barbs in the wounds until the rattler is as dead as St. Sebastian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Feathered Matador | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...Dillingham will ride in the number two spot. The tall Sophomore from Hawaii carries a two-goal outdoor rating, is worth even more according to Sargent. The third berth is at present a toss-up between Warwick Stabler, 240-pounder who has filled the number one position in previous games, and Ben Forbes, recent addition to the squad who may make his Varsity debut against Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/3/1938 | See Source »

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