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...lubricate diplomatic friction, in 1907 an agreement was solemnly signed which defined each country's sphere of influence in Persia. Britain was to influence in the southeast; Russia in the north. As for the poor Persians, their attitude was aptly summed up in a Punch cartoon of the period. It showed a Persian cat apprehensively sitting between a lion and a bear. "I will pat its head," says the bear, "and you shall stroke its tail." Pleads the cat: "But I have not been consulted...
Where a question of fact is involved I am sure TIME will be very eager to make a correction. In the Jemail story under Press [TiME, July 21] his column is credited with being "away out in front in the reader-interest race." Exception: the editorial cartoon drawn by me. My rating: 58%. Inquiring Photographer...
...about time the animals themselves pitch in and help." Though the St. Louis and Chicago zoos have long been enthusiastic animal breeders, many other U.S. zoos have felt it was somehow indelicate to encourage procreation among their beasts. This spinsterish squeamishness, typified by a New Yorker cartoon in 1936 (see cut), is now gone. When mates are not available, animals are sent on romantic journeys. The Bronx Zoo is sending two male ostrichlike Argentine rheas to the Washington Zoo, which has two females. The offspring will be divided. To their surprise, keepers have found that many animals breed better than...
...German invasion of Russia caught Nazi propagandists in Latin America napping, they were wide awake last week. By cartoon, pamphlet and voice the call was sounded to join Adolf Hitler's crusade against Communism. Since Latin America is 78% Catholic, the call might have been expected to show results. It did, but the results were not all as intended. Latin Americans started shooting each other...
Through the eyes of Mr. Benchley, as he stumbles through the Disney plant, Disneyacs can peek briefly into the bag of goodies in store for them. There are glimpses of a forthcoming full-length cartoon about a baby circus elephant named Dumbo whose enormous ears mortify him to tears until he becomes an overnight sensation by learning to fly with them; of another full-lengther, Bambi, and its leading man, a little white-tailed fawn; of Donald Duck down on the farm...