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Last night, as the Vagabond slowly climbed to his dusty sanctum beneath the moldy crags of Memorial Hall, the world was good, and his heart was warm. The crash of heavy trunks reverberates slowly through sacred elms, and the last empty truck rattles futile chains as it whisks into the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 9/23/1932 | See Source »

Marathon, First as the runners left the stadium after the start was a 20-year-old, 114-lb. Argentinian newsboy, Juan Carlos Zabala. He wore blue trunks, a white polo hat to protect him from the sun, carried a handkerchief to mop his face. The field of 28 plodded through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Xth Olympiad | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

The Yawalapiti, a primitive, vegetable-eating, pot-bellied folk were minding their daily affairs in their village on a source branch of the Rio Zingu. Women were tending babies, or grating manioc, or preparing the red paint with which they protect their naked bodies against insects. The bob-haired men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gods & Fishhooks | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

The Negroes behind Louis Armstrong are carrying the tune, when it can be detected behind his raspy, comical singing, his fancy trumpeting. Their rhythm is flawless, thanks to their leader who may smoke Muggles* to make his own performance hot but who realizes perfectly the need for tireless rehearsing. Louis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Black Rascal | 6/13/1932 | See Source »

Such is not the case. . . . The cases were unloaded along with all the other legitimate freight, and the narcotics came to light when the Customs officers made their inspection of the shipment. The French Line, which cooperates closely with the Customs service in its efforts to prevent smuggling in any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 23, 1932 | 5/23/1932 | See Source »

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