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...world changed color and shape for the stupefied Masons. To their house in the slums of South Philadelphia rushed well-wishers, curiosity-seekers, oil-well and gold-mine promoters. Police had to rope off their street. A man in Liberia wanted them to finance a bus line from Monrovia to the jungle. "All I ever wanted was my own home," Pearl shakily said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweepstakes | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Golden, Colo., suicidal Edward Madden climbed a tree, tied a rope to a branch, fastened the other end around his neck, and jumped. The rope broke, Edward Madden staggered away in a daze, died of a fractured skull when his head struck a boulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oddest | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...water, they sighted a ship. The first mate took out his bosun's whistle and "blew and blew and blew for some twenty minutes. It was that tiny whistle that made the Italian rescue ship [Provvidenza] change her course and head for us. They let down a rope ladder, but we all had to be helped to be dragged up. Whiskey and wine were given to the men. Auntie and I drank water. We refused food, we were that tired. So they let us go to sleep. Well, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Down We Go | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

When war broke loose Franklin Roosevelt in the White House had tocsined the U. S. public to a feverish pitch. Then he permitted a week of domestic calm. Last week, before Congress met, he got on the bell-rope again. He upped the Coast Guard's personnel by 2,000, for coastal peace patrol. Undenied was a story that his State, War & Navy Departments had whacked up a precautionary war budget of $20,000,000,000 for a single year, $2,000,000,000 of it for further increases in the military forces, when & if necessary. The Gallup index...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Opening Gun | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...British art of change ringing (not to be confused with carrillonning) only five to twelve bells are used. These are played by pulling ropes, one man to a rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bellwhangers | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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