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...years had Dr. Graeme Alexander Canning, a professor of Zoology at the University of Tennessee, fired a gun, but when he heard about the wild boar hunt being planned in his State's Cherokee National Forest (TIME, Nov. 16), his sporting blood was stirred. He paid his $5 fee for ambulance service, borrowed a rifle, set out one morning last week with the first batch of 30 hunters. His guide was an oldtime woodsman named Homer Bryson. The hunt for the savage, sharp-tusked progeny of Russian boars imported some three decades ago had been made doubly dangerous...
...third generation have considerable reputations among society portraitists: Lydia Field Emmet, Ellen Emmet Rand. Of greatest interest to gallery goers was Lydia Field Emmet's boyhood portrait of her nephew, the best-known contemporary of the clan, lanky playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (Reunion in Vienna, The Petrified Forest, Idiot's Delight...
Actor Howard's blond charm and gentle British passivity have on occasion seemed to endow plays like The Petrified Forest with a brooding, thoughtful quality not indicated in the script. But, as those who saw his film Romeo last spring might have guessed, the nation's No. 1 matinee idol does not have so easy a time with William Shakespeare as with Robert Sherwood Shocked and disappointed at Actor Howard's failure in the most ambitious and demanding male role on the English-speak ing stage, critics found the Howard Hamlet enervated, thoughtless, unilluminating...
...Tasmanian bushman bears to a Tammany district leader. Lean and muscular, weighing 150 to 400 lb., the boars' chief characteristics are great speed, ferocious courage, dagger-sharp tusks which can rip a dog or man to tatters. Tennessee mountaineers rate them more dangerous than bears. A Cherokee Forest ranger lately failed to stop one with ten bullets, escaped with his life only because his dog diverted the charging beast...
...thin out the Cherokee National Forest's population of 400-odd European boars and give U. S. hunters some unique sport, Tennessee's State Fish & Game Commission announced a hunt to begin Nov. 19, last ten days. Applications, of which 160 had been received by this week, may be sent to the State Fish & Game Commission at Nashville until the day of the hunt. The first 100 applicants to send in a special $5 fee (for cost of attending doctors, nurses and ambulance) will be accepted. Among 25 who had paid last week were Tennessee's newly...