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...kind, the Bishop Hill colony left many memorabilia in its wake. The original church, school, blacksmith shop, inn, town hall remain. Thanks to a tipsy Civil War veteran who turned to painting because it was less arduous than horseshoeing, a gallery of 93 oils, among them a stack of portraits of the men who built Bishop Hill was also left behind...
Finally the Treaty provides that some Egyptian troops and Egyptian colonists may enter the Sudan. In 1924 eight Egyptians assassinated the British Sirdar General Sir Lee Stack and in punishment Britain excluded Egyptian soldiers from the Sudan, closed it to Egyptian farmers who wished to move in, and exacted from the Egyptian Government cash damages of $2,500,000 (TIME...
...That Detroit's Rev. Charles E. Coughlin is not as politically dead as newspaper readers believe was indicated in Philadelphia last week when Representative Michael J. Stack, running with Coughlin endorsement against the bitter opposition of the potent Kelly machine, won a Democratic renomination to the House...
When Huxley's son wrote his distinguished father's official Life and Letters, he thought he had winnowed all the posthumous grain from the stack of his father's papers, but apparently he overlooked a youthful diary. Grandson Julian, also a biologist, found it after his father's death, last week published it with an introduction and notes. Huxley's Diary of the Voyage oj H. M. S. Rattlesnake, like Darwin's Diary of the Voyage...
When homespun Kentucky Poet Jesse Stuart sat down and wrote a big stack of "sonnets ' (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow -TIME, Oct. 15, 1934), a few critics sat up, called him a modern Bobbie Burns. Others just laughed at his unconscious, bull-tongued humor. Last week Poet Stuart made the scoffers scratch their heads over a book of stones that were partly funny, partly serious, in the main tantalizingly good. These tales of Kentucky farmers were written in racy Kentucky dialect, with a wild-eyed, straightforward outrageousness that reminded readers more than once of Erskine Caldwell, at times...