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...youngsters (Soprano Carole Lynn and Tenor Eric Palmer) who get themselves elected to Parliament on an All Party ticket. Forthwith they foil the villainess, Mrs. Alderman Busy (Joan Young), a battle-ax burlesque of Lady Astor. With the aid of Big Ben the barge-master (David Davies), they abduct her from the floor of the House of Commons while she is proposing Prohibition. And after much pother and porridge, all factions unite in a flag-waving finale ("Big Ben! Big Ben! . . . Chime out again and tell all men that England's England still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Big Ben Strikes | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

Died. Luke Lea, 66, Tennessee politico, who at 27 captured a state Democratic convention, at 31 became a U.S. Senator, at 40 almost captured the Kaiser and at 55 went to jail for a bank fraud; of a gastric attack; in Nashville. In the famed 1919 attempt to abduct Wilhelm II, Colonel Lea and seven other Yanks, posing as newsmen, penetrated the exile's retreat before the Dutch wised...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 26, 1945 | 11/26/1945 | See Source »

Reports printed in the Springfield News about the kidnapping of six soldiers in Pampana he believes, are probably inaccurate. For as he maintains, the only wild people there are mountain tribes, "Igorots"--wild dogs, and they don't abduct but behead captives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTHROPOLOGIST CLAIMS WILD MEN CIVILIZED AS STUDENTS | 12/5/1941 | See Source »

...nothing said or read about Biblical men who looked with lust upon female flesh. . . . The student body at City College consists of males, chaste or unchaste, some of them over 18, with morals poised so delicately that, if Bertrand Russell expounds mathematics or philosophy, they are impelled to abduct and rape, while if he does not appear in their midst, woman's virtue knows no peril...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Scholars on an Earl | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...police the whole story. He and a man named Pace had been living with Mrs. Coll. They had been supporting themselves by petty stickups until Mrs. Coll. accustomed to doughtier deeds, urged them to "give up this five-and-ten-cent-store business." Thereupon the trio tried to abduct a jeweler, who surprised them by running swiftly down the street instead of getting in their car. Pace went flying after him, wildly firing a revolver. The jeweler escaped unscathed, but a youthful bystander named Mollie Schwartz lucklessly and fatally stopped one of the slugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: In New York | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

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