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...cent." For the next month he lived in a be wildering maze of instructions in codes, radio transmission, photography , microphotography. His code book was Rachel Field's novel All This and Heaven Too. Soon he was sent to the U.S. to stay at Manhattan's 63rd St. Y.M.C.A. - "most of the crooks in America stay there," said his Nazi boss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: The World of William Sebold | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

...politics well nigh outstank those of William Tweed's New York. Mickey Finn dispensed his deadly cocktails. Fifty thousand men existed solely on free lunch provided by saloons. The mass-murderer H. H. Holmes destroyed from 30 to 300 victims in the torture chambers of his "castle" on 63rd Street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down the Cesspool | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...University of Southern California: the 63rd annual Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. track meet; for the ninth time in 13 attempts ; making the teams of 29 rival colleges look like Sunday School picnickers; with a total of 711/2 points, highest score in the history of the meet; at Randall's Island, N. Y. Brightest individual star, however, was Pitt's long-striding Negro Johnny Woodruff, who won both the quarter-mile and half-mile for the third year in a row, a feat no one had accomplished since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...balcony of St. Peter's, as twilight turned to darkness, stepped a tall, lean, greying man in white, wearing an ermine-bordered red cape. Pope Pius XII -whose 63rd birthday it was-raised his hand in the gesture of a blessing urbi et orbi, "to the city and the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Habemus Papam | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...momentary lapse when he bungled a piddling putt, he gave his hillbilly neighbors something to chaw over. He took a two-under-par 68 on each of the first two rounds, a 69 on the third and then, after trailing Ky Laffoon by one stroke at the 63rd hole, the pride of White Sulphur Dreezed through the final nine in a whirlwind 32 for a seven-under-par total of 273 -and first prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grapefruit Opener | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

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