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Shaw admired Morris' daughter from afar until on one occasion he saw her staring at him carefully and quite deliberately make "a gesture of assent with her eyes." Deciding that he could not, as a brother-Communist, commit Morris' "beautiful daughter to a desperately insolvent marriage," Shaw said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Shaw's Friends | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

7th. Nightmares half the night from sampling B---'s wretched cheese. In one dream I am driving with my love when, as I turn to caress her cheek, a tree looms up and smashes us hard. My love into thin air, and I, dazed, behind the wheel. The car falls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Dr. Thoma conducted a musical test in the zoo to determine which chimpanzee was the most impressionable. "When the animals' curiosity toward the instruments." he reported, "had abated somewhat-they tried to tear the instruments away from us and play on them themselves-I discovered, to my surprise, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Impressionable Peter | 11/2/1936 | See Source »

" 'We sat motionless behind a bush when the cubs came up and the groundskeeper duly 'squealed,' a sound made by suction of the breath through pursed lips. The vocal cord was not used. Two or three more squeals and we had them right up, just the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Variations | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

Hypnotist Cannon makes it abundantly clear that there is nothing mysterious or difficult about the technique. All that is necessary is for the subject to relax, drive all thought from his mind, fix his attention on some object (usually a bright light), listen to the operator's soothing suggestions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Miracle Man | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

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