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Smith Week. Before starting for a convention that promised to be as indecorous and undignified as any he had ever attended, Al Smith spent a quiet week in New York. While fishing off Long Island he met with John Francis Curry, Tammany chieftain, and Boss John H. McCooey of Brooklyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Happy Warhorse | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

The brave Yawalapiti would not for a long time touch the "egg" dropped by the sky-thing. When it gave out no sound, no movement, no smell, one brave ventured to poke it with his fishing spear. The sack uttered a tinkle. The Yawalapiti leaped upon it, ripped it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gods & Fishhooks | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

The Yawalapiti, a primitive, vegetable-eating, pot-bellied folk were minding their daily affairs in their village on a source branch of the Rio Zingu. Women were tending babies, or grating manioc, or preparing the red paint with which they protect their naked bodies against insects. The bob-haired men...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Gods & Fishhooks | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

When Luby J. ("Jack") Doty, Memphis city employe, recovered consciousness last year, he found that the motor car in which he was going fishing had overturned, exploded, burned two companions to death, seared his back and legs. Piped he: "I'm not a dead soldier." Doctors placed him face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Oven Man | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

With Easter's devil-may-care father to take them to circuses and horse races; with Plenty of ponies in the enormous stables and old Jer Donohughe's hounds to follow, it seems to the children that pleasures will never end. But along comes the War. Easter'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Erin Go Bragh! | 6/20/1932 | See Source »

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