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In Leftist Spain last week the regular staff correspondents and Novelist Ernest Hemingway were looking for survivors of the 450 Abies & Georgies who for a whole gallant day held a hilltop near Gandesa against the sweeping offensive of the Spanish Rightists (see above). About 150 were said to have escaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Abies & Georgies | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

The gouty, 78-year-old chief was found at Pirates' Cove sitting cross-legged and barefooted in his striped finery, placidly smoking a pipe. He did not deny the story. Mindful of the Seminole law that the friends of a killer must bring him gifts within three days or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: Which Murder? | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Picking up whatever implements they could lay their hands on, a band of marauders broke into the school and proceeded to thwack, whack, hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Youngsters | 9/13/1937 | See Source »

Funny material to be purveyed by the new syndicate had a heavy rural cast. As a possible substitute for the wise saws of the late Humorist Will Rogers, which McNaught Syndicate sold to 500 newspapers, Esquire Features offered a daily 150-word gag from Bob Burns, onetime vaudevillian whose radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Breeches Boys | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

For the cover of his brother's first songbook Artist Gellert drew a barrel-chested, barefooted black convict wearing a ball& chain and resting on his pickax while he wiped the sweat from his face. Of the songs, some are mournful, some grim, some comic. But each one has...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs of Protest | 6/15/1936 | See Source »

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