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Kansas City police hunted L. C. Barrow, one of the Southwest's notorious Barrow brothers (Clyde and Buck were killed by cops). Charge: stealing a dozen cans of caviar. . .Charles Ray, 50, corn-fed juvenile of the silent films, went broke in Hollywood. . .The Safe Deposit and Trust Co. of Baltimore, guardians of eight-year-old Christopher Smith Reynolds, son of Torchsinger Libby Holman and the late, tobacco-wealthy Zachary Smith Reynolds, declared it cost them $6,944.44 a month to maintain the boy. . . Harry K. Thaw, 70, wealthy playboy slayer of Architect Stanford White in 1906, turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

...newspaper in Chicago, where the heavyweight champ's wife has sued for divorce, appeared the following ad: "Not resp. for debts cont. by anyone but myself, Joe Louis Barrow, 550 E. 61st...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: War & Defense | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

Well known to the police of London's East End is 25-year-old Costerboy John Thomas Cain. Often enough they have had him up for piddling misdemeanors, blocking traffic with his barrow, chucking unsold vegetables about at the day's end. Last week, however, the Metropolitan Police would have looked the other way if he had overturned his barrow in Piccadilly Circus. For John Thomas Cain was sporting one of the highest awards for gallantry that his country can give a civilian, the George Medal. He is, so far, the youngest Briton to wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Billiards, Bombs, Beer | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis Barrow, registering his full name in Detroit, was asked what branch of the service he would like to join. "I ain't choosy," he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE DRAFT: The Day | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...Army Air Corps is going further, readying plans for fields at Point Barrow (where Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed), at Nome and probably another near the Canadian border, against the possibility of an air invasion across the top of the world. Advance fields will dot the Seward peninsula back of Nome, the lower Yukon Valley back of Bethel and the tundra south of Point Barrow. This summer the U. S. Army landed at Anchorage the first big contingent of troops the territory had seen in 40 years. The only other sizable garrison in Alaska consists of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strategic Map: Northwest Frontier | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

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