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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...writer is convinced that John Stink never lived in a tree. It was his custom to hang his few utensils in a tree when he left a hideout. In fact this writer was once a member of a young hunting party that shot holes through his crude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...tree-clad ridge near Cumberland, R. I. lies a cluster of austere grey Gothic buildings, laid up in stone during the past 35 years by white-robed members of the Order of Cistercian Monks of the Strict Observance. The 62 men of the Monastery of Our Lady of the Valley-among them a onetime Canadian Northwest "Mountie," a onetime department store manager, a onetime railway construction engineer, a onetime civil engineer, a World War aviator-labor daily in their fields and cowbarns. Save when all of them sing their psalms, recite their orisons, or when a few of them maintain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Words from the Silent | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

General John Joseph Pershing, 76. was interviewed under a tree at his home in Lincoln, Neb., on the 20th anniversary of the U. S. entrance into the War. Had he any comment on the occasion? "Hush, gentlemen," whispered the A. E. F.'s Commander-in-Chief. "Hear that redbird sing? That is more important to me right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 19, 1937 | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

Nothing but his interpretation of imposition and color limits the artist a post-impressionism. He attempts to express with the greatest possible the material and spiritual significance of a subject, as the "treeness" a tree or the "wallness" of a wall. Generally the works of Kandinsky are considered to be the most abstract expressions of post-impressionism, requiring an imaginative reception on part of the observer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 4/16/1937 | See Source »

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