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Gulla Slogum was a mean woman, even for the tough Nebraska frontier. When she got in trouble with the law because she was forcing her older sons to rustle cattle, she squeezed out of it by prostituting a pretty daughter to the sheriff. When her youngest son, Ward, fell in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: O Pioneers | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Being worth $700,000 and better known to the ends of the earth than any initialed railroad, broadcasting station or New Deal agency, the Dionne Quintuplets last week assumed Y-A-C-E-M as their code name. Psychology Professor William Emet Blatz of the University of Toronto tagged them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Y-A-C-E-M | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

The vocabulary of the children is small and poorly pronounced-because, said Dr. Blatz, the children make adequate signs to one another and are too smart to make needless sounds in addition. According to his practiced eye, "Annette is the social climber, Yvonne the mother, Cecile the unknown quantity, Emilie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Y-A-C-E-M | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

Died. Jack Curley, 61, famed showman and promoter; after a heart attack; in Great Neck, L. I. Born Jacques Armand Schuel of Alsatian parents in San Francisco, Jack Curley changed his name when he ran away from home to become a reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 19, 1937 | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Yvonne is the most lively and adventuresome. She regards herself as "mother"' of the rest. Marie is the quietest and most musical. When Marie "draws" she prefers to make straight, vertical lines. Cecile, the tallest, loves mirrors and red objects. Annette draws in sweeping circles. Yvonne paints spirals and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: . . . And How They Grew | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

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