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...them as they stand, sometimes casting them (i.e., throwing them down) to make them take their medicine. When horses arrive at the depots they often fall sick of what oldsters call "shipping cold" (sometimes resulting in pneumonia). This cured, they go into training, come out gentled, trained to harness, pack or saddle, ready for assignment to a service outfit...
...radio's big ten were the deftly written serial The Aldrich Family (sixth), the schmalz of Band Leader Kay Kyser (ninth), the soap-opera One Man's Family (tenth). Beating the graven image Charlie McCarthy by a whisker, Jack Benny led the pack for 1940. Others in Crossley's peerage: Fibber McGee & Molly, the Lux Radio Theatre, Bob Hope, Kate Smith, Major Bowes...
...about a friend with whom he used to hunt big game. His friend was Charlie Cottar of Garfield County, Okla., who migrated to East Africa. He went out in 1910, when he was past 40, and he took with him his wife and as much stuff as he could pack in a bullock cart. He cleared 1,000 acres and planted them to coffee, potatoes and sisal, but most of his time he spent as guide to big-game hunters such as Martin Johnson, the Prince of Wales, Phil Plant and the Aga Khan...
...emphasis on the roundabout northern way-into Vladivostok, by rail to Chita or Verkhne Udinsk, thence by mechanical and animal caravan down the Mongolian desert to China, 3,700 miles in all from Vladivostok to Chungking. Links in the route were not exactly new; their origins as a pack trail predated Marco Polo, Genghis Khan and the mighty Chin. About three years ago the Chinese began to fix up the road, stringing repair shops, gasoline dumps and food stations across the tundra...
...year-old relief agency which last fall reorganized itself (TIME, Sept. 23). Its joint conference with National Student Federation was heralded in the Communist New Masses as "The Plot Against Youth." But its conference turned out to be more plotted against than plotting. First leftists tried to pack its meeting, were repulsed. Then the two new Leagues (above) used its platform to announce themselves. At week's end, I. S. S. tried to join forces with N. S. F. by offering it a subsidy, was rebuffed on the ground that its offer was "not altruistic...