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...seven living), of whom twelve were born within Toronto's city limits. City records show only ten registered within the decade. Rats killed one Kenny child. If the contest judges rule out her two unrecorded infants, Mrs. Kenny still has a good chance to break the tie and pocket Bachelor Millar's $500,000 by delivering the child she is now carrying before All Souls...
TIME has been read in strange places under strange conditions but never until this month by a radio reporter waiting on a battlefield to broadcast carnage. Good fortune led me to pocket my unread copy of TIME as I started for the French frontier farm from which I had planned to describe the battle of Irun to Columbia's listeners -with sound effects by the combatants. The effects began soon after my microphone was installed between a haystack and a cornfield and with them came incessant shot & shell. The rapidly shifting fighting front had placed my haystack in direct...
Back from Berlin last month on the world's fastest liner, R. M. S. Queen Mary, came the world's fastest blackamoor, Jesse Owens, with four Olympic crowns in his valise. With very little money in his pocket, Sprinter Owens made no secret of the fact that he was returning to the U. S. to cash in on his athletic reputation for all it was worth. Bug-eyed Radioclown Eddie Cantor, whose recent offer of a college scholarship ended in an unfortunate cribbing fiasco (TIME, April 20), was said to be offering Owens $4,000 a week just...
...have read of the harrowing adventures of men who went into South American jungles well provisioned and armed and with guides. I smile, because I left Cartagena with nothing, not even a pocket knife, and lived in the jungle for almost six months. Five or six big jaguars that I encountered looked at me curiously and then scampered off. They were well fed on deer and pigs, and apparently had no wish to taste a half-starved Frenchman. At first the snakes bothered me, but finally I became accustomed to them...
...Chile to aid the overpublicized search for Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth (TIME, Jan. 27). A slight. 39-year-old bachelor. Pilot Merrill does not smoke or drink but has a weakness for perfume. When flying, he usually has a vial of Surrender or Evening in Paris in his pocket, steals an occasional sniff. Singer Richman paid him a reputed $25,000 to go on the trip to England, announced it would be a round-trip affair with only a few hours' pause at Croydon. To safeguard themselves in case the Lady Peace plopped into the ocean, Flyers Richman and Merrill...