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...with a problem. On the barren rim of the Arctic Ocean in northernmost Canada some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless they could find some new source of food and clothing they were doomed to slow extinction. To their worried guardian, the Canadian Government, reindeer seemed the best solution. But there were no reindeer within a thousand trackless miles of the hungry Eskimos...
...Today Albert Schweitzer is big, husky, with a mop of black hair and a vast walrus mustache. Hearty and good-natured, he lives simply, drinks only wine and smokes not at all, travels always in the cheapest class. The income from his books,* his lectures and his infrequent organ recitals in Europe goes to support his village of corrugated iron buildings on the banks of the Ogowe. There "Oganga" expects to die. He explains: "Through the spirit of Jesus I became conscious that a man can be called to a place without knowing exactly just why. For years I have...
...vast Congress of 500 Soviet poets and prose writers that assembled fortnight ago (TIME, Aug. 27) in Moscow's famed Hall of Columns under the guidance of walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky turned their attention last week to Russia's children. A 13-year-old girl known as Alia Kanshin marched into the hall at the head of 13 Siberian moppets under a big red banner proclaiming themselves "THE CIRCLE OF THE PUG-NOSED." The Circle had just completed a cooperative book on child life in Siberia. They demanded more and better books for Soviet children, books about "the struggles...
Five hundred poets and prose writers in 80 Soviet languages and dialects were welcomed to Moscow last week by unromantic Josef Stalin as "engineers of the human soul." Soon walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky opened the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers with a speech recommending study of the Russian classics. The Soviet Press, however, firmly declared with Dictator Stalin that the purpose of the Congress is "to apply scientific methods to the creation of literature...
...Marmosets, baboons, gibbons and probably most other monkeys have multiple births. So, rarely, do horses, cows, sheep, deer. Some species in which multiple births have never been recorded: whale, porpoise, zebra, buffalo. African antelope, giraffe, camel, llama, sea lion, walrus, hippopotamus, sloth, anteater, and the major varieties of elephant, rhinoceros and kangaroo. Bears ordinarily produce 2-3 young, striped hyenas 3-4, ferrets 6-10, hedgehogs 3-6, Australian dingo dogs...