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The Vagabond is a timid fellow, and when the path of love has rocks as big as Widener scattered about on it, he seeks consolation in the company of his old friend Keats. After a few lines of drowsy numbness, the world no longer looks so dark. Of late the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/1/1937 | See Source »

A quarter-century ago in the southern part of Madagascar, a herdsman of the savage Tandroy tribe was tending his cattle on the banks of a river swollen by the torrential rains of late December and January. The tribesman caught sight of an object, bobbing lightly on the turbid water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Elephantine Egg | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

In the afternoon very drowsy and draped self on davenport, listening to the radio. Three minutes of Benny - Goodman - Hal - Kemp - Bing - Crosby - Fats - Waller - Shep - Fields - and - his ripplingrhythm - Muzzy - Muzzolino - Mussolini - whatever - it - is. Three minutes of spiel - MEN! smoke Webster - the All-American cigar . . . . The third race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/9/1936 | See Source »

In Conchartee, Okla., the arrival of new editions of the Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward catalogs was in the nature of both an economic and literary event. The train was late; the post office truck stalled under the load; the mail carriers were held up in their deliveries. Chosen from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mail Order Stuff | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

Unlike other cities of the Old South, Atlanta, Ga. was a modern industrial community from the start. Staked out just one hundred years ago as a railroad terminal, it soon grew until four important lines crossed there. Its commercial activity had few attractions to Southerners who were trained to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Backdrop for Atlanta | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

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