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...cases." Though he has great contempt for most of his neighbors, Doc Bull has found a kindred spirit in Janet Cardmaker, unconventional spinster who is far from being an old maid. She and Doc Bull are suspect, thought to be in league, but neither of them cares a whoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dr. Bull | 1/9/1933 | See Source »

...Biggar watched beef on the hoof waddle by. Among the 750 was many a Hereford, returned to prominence. Finally the Biggar cane, at last removed from the Biggar arm pointed to a sleek fat Hereford from Texas, named Texas Special. Owner William Largent of Merkel, Tex., let out a whoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Stock Show | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

Because non-Moslems are barred from Mecca during the pilgrim season upon pain of death; because Ibn Saud and his personal followers are so strict that they might be called Moslem Fundamentalists; and because few Christians care a whoop what happens in Arabia, news from the Land of Saud is always scarce, usually untrustworthy. Biggest Christian news of recent years was the 58-day trek of English Explorer Bertram Thomas across 900 miles of arid waste, famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAND OF SAUD: Kingdom Christened | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

Simultaneously Republican Boss Sam Koenig assembled his docile cohorts at the National Republican Club to make up a Manhattan-Bronx judicial ticket. Senator Hofstadter was nominated with a whoop ?and so was young Democrat Steuer. Thus effectively closed to New York voters was all choice between bench candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Brazen Deal | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...populous East. With wheat at 50? a bu., Western Home Monthly (headquarters: Winnipeg) found its readers broke. The magazine "went national," guaranteed an A. B. C. circulation of 180,000 by October 1932, a boost of some 60,000 over the distribution it then had. With a whoop of delight, last week the publishers announced that the goal had been reached. To celebrate they changed the journal's name to National Home Monthly. Subscribers had been tracked down by the hundreds throughout the verdant Eastern Provinces and as far as cold grey Newfoundland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Maple Leaf Magazines | 9/26/1932 | See Source »

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