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Death by falling from great heights is pleasant-provided the smash-up at earth is thorough. Professor Heim of Zurich, who stated so last week, once fell off a precipice of Mount Saentis. He lit on his head and distinctly heard the thud. Stout, he recovered; introspective, he recalled his falling sensations. Delicious music soughed by his ears. He was very calm. Only after an hour from his rocky landing did he feel the pain of his broken bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Falling | 8/27/1928 | See Source »

...parish house of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, the Democratic Candidate for Governor of Illinois came to see him about farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Friendship | 8/20/1928 | See Source »

Florence Hayes, 20-year-old niece of Cardinal Hayes, took vows and became a member of the Sisters of St. Francis, situated at Mount St. Clare, New Hamburg, N. Y. Hereafter she will be known as Sister Michella Marie. The Cardinal assisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Obedience, Poverty, Chastity | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

...Minister in Great Britain, kindly, honest, incurably emotional Stanley Baldwin. The hobby of beloved Prime Minister Baldwin is keeping pigs, prime pigs, prize pigs. The daily sport of popular Prime Minister Bruce is to hop from home to office by private airplane, hop back, and thus stable his winged mount in the cellar of his residence. Last week Pigfancier Baldwin and Planefancier Bruce became thoroughly vexed with one another over the vital problem of British unemployment. Cables flashed from England to Australia told that Mr. Baldwin said, last week, in the British House of Commons: "The state of permanent unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: Pigfancier v. Planejancier | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

Less fortunate than the Wildwood osprey were the grackles of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Lacking a mediator, these birds, noisy, gregarious, were last week slaughtered in hundreds by police shotguns to please Mount Vernon slugabeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Jul. 23, 1928 | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

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