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...Galveston, Texas, G. Martini, assistant manager of a cinema theatre, was on his way to deposit the day's box-office receipts of You Can't Take It With You. In the lobby of the bank a bandit held up Manager Martini, took it with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...Orleans, Cub Reporter James Aldige came upon three men holding up a messenger boy in an alley. Fists flying, James Aldige jumped in, captured one bandit, forced the others to flee. Then he dragged his captive to a telephone while he called the police. They caught the other two. Few hours later, when James Aldige's city editor read about this adventure in a rival paper, asked why James Aldige had not reported it, he replied: "I didn't think it was a story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...trouble appears to have started when Bill Jhonson, a "scowling man who had a curled mustache," took a card from his coat. Tom gritted his teeth and "could hardly wait till night to settle with him.'' He riddled Bill Jhonson and all his bandit friends, then studied a map of a gold mine and said, "Guess I better go to sleep." In the morning he tried to clean up Silver City and there was a terrific battle. ''Smoke filled the streets, the shouts of men were drowned in the gun fire, in every store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventure Story | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

Playwright Ginty's triumph of make-believe is that she has created, out of one part pious bluenose and one part murderous bandit, a lively, attractive, fun-loving Tom Rover. Nobody even bothers to wonder whether Thomas Howard might not be a sniveling hypocrite: at worst, he would seem to justify his forays as Falstaff justified his thefts: " 'Tis my vocation, Hal. 'tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation.'' For almost three acts Jesse James labors with gusto. But History and the Wages of Sin have to win out, and Jesse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Oct. 3, 1938 | 10/3/1938 | See Source »

Married. Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 35, onetime G-Man who directed the capture of Bandit John Dillinger, now practices law in San Francisco; and Mrs. Rosanne Willcox Taylor, 30; in Charlotte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 26, 1938 | 9/26/1938 | See Source »

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