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...stupid to infer that cutting off a hoof in process of butchering is comparable to surgical amputation. And it is altogether incorrect to imply that a specialist has so limited a field as does a meat packer and finds his work no more stimulating and broadening than grading beef. After all, the Clinic has dealt with human beings. Did you say nearly 1,000,000 of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 6, 1937 | 9/6/1937 | See Source »

...Helen Charlton announced today that she had canceled all vacation plans in order to continue her work of touring the West End district each night and feeding stray cats pâté de foie gras, minced salmon, minced beef and milk. "That is the only way to be sure the cats are fed," she explained. "I have given up donating money to charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dispatch of the Week | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

...York the male died, but a few weeks after her arrival the female gave birth, surprising the entire staff of the zoo. The baby died in two weeks. The mother still lives, is completely tame, completely stupid, and follows people around like a puppy. She is fed on raw beef and freshly killed pigeons, but will eat practically anything if given the opportunity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Solenodons | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...last month): As he has done every Sunday for two years, quiet, kindly. 61-year-old Fritz Mueller, German-born Seattle meat market owner, is delivering a roast of beef to a needy friend. Outside the apartment house, which substantial Citizen Mueller owns, he is stopped by two Federal Alcohol Tax Unit agents in plain clothes-short, swart Edward T. Kelly, 35, onetime Prohibition agent, and frail, bespectacled Leonard ("Relentless") Regan, 59, Croix de guerre War veteran, longtime Prohibition agent. Agent Kelly: "Where are you going with that package?" Mueller explains, asks why he is being followed. A scuffle takes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...pink that she thought they might be almost edible. Flat-heeled, brown-clad English women all looked like schoolteachers. Under the withering catechism of Author Walter De La Mare, Madame Ichikawa admitted that the only things good about England were "the policeman, cart-horses and Simpson's beef-steak." * The worst example of English bad taste she found in her hotel lavatory, where the toilet-paper was stamped with an advertisement showing "a lovely little child's face." Peering through heavy bars at the British crown in the Tower of London, she wished that she could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Japan's Provincial Lady | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

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