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After receiving more advice from Lion-tamer Clyde Beatty, Lieut. Burke asked a nearby rifle range to lend him its No. 1 marksman, a marine sergeant named Michael Peskin. Few minutes later Marksman Peskin and six guardsmen armed with submachine guns and 30-calibre rifles piled into a picket boat, shoved off for the Amazone, hove to southeast of Cape May, and their first lion hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Lion Hunt | 9/4/1939 | See Source »

...Negroes are generally credited with two great contributions to U. S. folk music: 1) spirituals, 2) the musical dialect of jazz. Why these two contributions should be so different has long puzzled high & lowbrows. One obvious reason: spirituals are sacred and solemn, hence naturally slower and tamer than jazz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Spirituals to Swing | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Because she has overstayed her leave in the U. S., the Department of Labor ordered the arrest, when found, of Animal Tamer Mme Maria Rasputin Soloviev, statuesque daughter of "Mad Monk" Grigoriy Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the late Tsarina of Russia. Where Mme Soloviev was taming animals last week the Labor Department did not know. Continuing his financial retrenchment, William Randolph Hearst sold over $100,000 worth of art treasures including Chippendale chairs. Georgian beds, silverware of the Charles II and William III periods. Purchaser: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who will place them in the Governor's Palace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...with an eye for publicity introduced to its patrons last week a zebra (see cut) with a hangdog expression, accompanied by Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck. To the great delight of photographers, the zebra, after posing wearily for its picture, shook itself from head to foot, tripped Tamer Buck, sent him sprawling to his knees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Capers | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Terrell Jacobs, lion tamer who gets inside a cage with 18 lions & lionesses, masses most of them, climbs on top himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Jungle to Garden | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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