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Western porcupines migrate slowly, deliberately in the spring from their dens in the mountain lava cliffs to the valley farms, returning in the autumn. It is during these travels that they gnaw the butts of pine trees great and small. In some sections a huntsman would have no trouble killing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Porcupine War | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

When Detroit's successful mayorality candidate Charles Bowles entered office he delighted businessmen by drafting Businessman Harold H. Emmons to be police commissioner. But some businessmen withdrew their support from the Mayor because, among his appointees was John Gillespie, onetime police commissioner, old-line politician, to be Commissioner of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Turmoil in Detroit | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

Returning to Chicago, Burns met Emily del Pino (later Mrs. Burns, the plaintiff), who was then "37, of good character and morals ... in possession of a flourishing business and doing well." Burns boarded at her mother's house, during which time he illegally obtained pay-check money while timekeeper for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Villainess v. Villain | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

Aged 64, Chief Constable Wensley has been on the Force for 42 years. He joined it as an ordinary "bobby." He has left his mark upon the Chinese dens of Limehouse. the anarchists' haunts and crime slums of Shoreditch, Hackney. Wapping. There he learned to be fearless while carrying no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Scotland Yardsman | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

The little theatres of the land are dens of morbidity and exoticism. This fact is always made apparent at Manhattan's annual Little Theatre Tournament. The seventh contest, held last week, was cut to the conventional pattern. Twenty amateur organizations competed, each presenting a one-act play. One group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Little Theatre Tournament | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

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