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...CASE FOR THREE DETECTIVES-Leo Bruce-Stokes ($2). Three famed detectives solve a seemingly impossible murder but with three different results, and Sergeant Beef, of the local police, triumphs over Scotland Yard...
Saroyan on Bufano Sirs: My friend Reniamino Bufano [TIME. Feb. 15], the sculptor, like so many people who are not sculptors, sometimes eats nuts. Almost every day, however, in the presence of witnesses too, Bufano eats spaghetti and beef. There are never any cheers, no amazement. At the table, as a matter of fact, many people would not suspect that Bufano is one of the greatest living sculptors. Also, the model for Bufano's St. Francis was not my friend Joseph Danysh, Regional Adviser for The Federal Art Project on the West Coast. The model was St. Francis-inwardly...
...taught to "box rather than fight"; and it is a pity that the team will travel no more to battle the Coast Guard or Virginia, because there are plenty of potential champions in line. Some of the Freshmen are really good, and plenty of skill as well as just beef and brawn are being exhibited...
...necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into a food similar to our bologna of today. It didn't taste well or smell good but it was filling. So when the Phoenician soldiers received this food, which was supposed to be beef, they would say, 'that's hooey.' The word traveled up through the ages, possibly journeyed from the Baltic Sea to Russia, although I have not been able to trace it. ... But anyway in 1918 we find the same word in the French language, also 'hooey...
...Last week, when the Inter-American Peace Conference rose, it had been definitely ascertained that Argentina will NOT be a party to that clause of a neutrality treaty adopted by the other American states which would operate, in case of a European war, to prevent her from selling her beef, horses, sheep and foodstuffs to the belligerents. Since Argentina is going to sell, all American countries are very likely to do the same, and this week premiers, presidents and dictators may smoke that in their peace pipes...