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Belize was founded by British pirates. The name Belize was unaccountably derived by Spaniards from the name of the Scottish Settler Wallis. Legend relates that the city was built in a swamp on a foundation of gin pots and mahogany chips. If this is so, it would have been better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH HONDURAS: What Spiders Know | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

The Council discovered Dr. Lyndon Frederick Small, just returned from two years of study in Europe, at the University of Virginia and financed a special laboratory for him. Out of a coal tar product called phenanthrene he has synthesized several drugs which closely resemble the chemical structure and physiological action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dope | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

Billy the Kid (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Undoubtedly the new vogue of westerns has been stimulated by critics who arraigned the cinema for losing its integrity in dull photographs of stage plays. Now King Wallis Vidor, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's ace director, with the help of the company's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 3, 1930 | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

Cat fanciers may doubt the following anecdote but it is vouched for by Sir Wallis on his honor as an Egyptologist:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Budge on Mike | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

"On Sunday mornings the house cat taught him [Kitten Mike] to stalk pigeons in the colonnade. Mike was set to 'point' like a dog, and the house cat little by little drove the pigeons up into a corner. The pigeons became dazed, and fell down, and then each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Budge on Mike | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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