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...leaders of the small group of Eskimo primitive sculpturists whose work came to the attention of the outside world in recent years because of its fluent, uncluttered simplicity (TIME, July 20, 1953); of drowning July 31, when he slipped from an ice floe while hunting walrus off Ellesmere Island...
Meanwhile, the chunky, ruddy-faced Teddy bear with the walrus mustache had become Civil Service commissioner, New York City police commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the most famed Rough Rider on San Juan Hill. He ran successfully for governor of New York and Vice President of the U.S. while bands blared A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight, and admirers extravagantly told of his exploits (Finley Peter Dunne as "Mr. Dooley" wrote: "In Wounded Knee he busts a broncho that has kilt almost th' entire male popylation; busts it so har-rd 'twud dhraw...
...Anthony himself, who rose timidly to make his maiden speech. Said nephew John: "I do not believe that the Communist powers of either Russia or China have shown a very great or genuine change of heart . . . One by one, the innocent countries are being eaten up by the Soviet walrus and the Chinese carpenter. We must stop this feast before there is nothing left." Only powerful, determined and united opposition, said John Eden, will make them change their plans. "We should have a complete change of outlook among the people of our country...
Henry Cross was a plump man who wore rimless spectacles, a chesterfield and a walrus mustache. He was also mighty adventurous. Born in upper New York State in 1837, he twice ran away with circuses, and at 16 made his way to Paris, where he learned animal painting from Rosa Bonheur. On his return, he went west with a circus, painting the animals and developing an interest in Indian life. Later he decorated circus wagons for P. T. Barnum, finally decided his life was too tame and set forth in search of savages...
...frogs," says the 57-year-old scientist, defiantly twirling his walrus mustache, "I see the entire universe." The more he learns about his frog-shaped universe, the more he worries about the human-shaped conscience. Biologists, says he in the current Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ask themselves whether they can improve on nature. "Who can fail to see the seriousness of this program . . .? What will happen on the day science will have given us the possibility of determining the sex of our offspring? . . . Was it not much easier to rely on unpredictable chance?" What about "therapy of the spirit...