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...Texas last century, they took their foxhounds with them. Looking around for choicer game than Texas' quickly grounded grey fox, the settlers found it in the wily, hard-running coyote or "Mexican Wolf." At first the new quarry proved too fast, too long-winded for their hounds. Huntsmen sent back to Kentucky for dogs of the famed Walker and Trigg stock, soon bred a hound which could more than match the coyote's speed and stamina...
...newly-reelected Senator Nathan Lynn ("Nate") Bachman, Federal Judge George Caldwell Taylor of Knoxville, Mrs. William Stanley, 30-year-old wife of a University of Tennessee entomologist. Participants must also possess a State hunting license (resident $2, nonresident $15), may bag one boar each. No pigstickers, the Tennessee huntsmen may carry rifles of .25 calibre and up or automatic shotguns, take their chances on foot or on horseback. Automobiles are barred...
...Nazi, getting arrested and paying a $20 fine, the German Government officially informed U. S. Ambassador William E. Dodd that no such arrest occurred. Police along the Kurfürstendamm took little interest in the Jew hunt. When not in full cry after a Jew, zealous huntsmen, swinging paste pots, stuck up posters reading "The Jew is the cause of all our troubles!" covered the doors of what they took to be Jewish shops with stickers warning "I am a Jew. Aryans enter my shop at their own risk!" Comic were the crestfallen looks of the blond, strapping huntsmen...
About the same age as the huntsmen is observant Varian Fry (Harvard '30), recently chosen to become editor of the Living Age and now in Europe on a "study tour" to fit him for the job and get him a Ph.D. from Columbia. Reported Living Age's Fry: "I saw one man brutally kicked and spat on as he lay on the side walk, a woman was bleeding, a dirty tear-stained face, a man whose head was covered with blood, hysterical women crying, men losing their temper at the police or the Storm Troopers being kicked...
Many long years ago lived Blasius, physician and bishop of Sebaste in Armenia. In his old age, during the persecutions of Emperor Licinius, Blasius retired to a cave where he made friends with lions, leopards, bears and wolves. One day the emperor's huntsmen found him, dragged him away from his pets. On his way to trial Blasius cured a small boy who was choking on a fish bone. He also made a wolf return a pig it had stolen from an old woman. When Blasius was flung into a dungeon to starve, the woman gratefully brought...