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...answered: Under a holm tree. . . . With that all the assembly cried out . . . and rose up against the two elders (for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth). . . . And put them to death, and innocent blood was saved in that day." In Susanna at the Bath, artists of the Renaissance found a favorite religious subject for their revival of the classical study of nudes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STATES & CITIES: Susanna At Albany | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...years the vermin-ridden prison on the Rue du Faubourg St. Denis, built on the site of the still more ancient leprosery of St. Lazare, has held France's women prisoners, specially harlots. One of St. Lazare's first notable prisoners was Charlotte Corday, bath-stabber of Terrorist Marat. One of its more recent inmates was the equally publicized Spy Mata Hari. U. S. inmates have included the Comtesse de Janze, the former Alice Silverthorne of Chicago, for shooting her lover (whom she later married) and Mrs. Ruth Putnam Mason, author and actress, for passing worthless checks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lazare Day | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...After winning the middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling championship. Ivar Johansson, Swedish policeman, took a Turkish bath instead of attending his victory ceremonies. Then, 11 lb. lighter, he won the welterweight Graeco-Roman wrestling championship. Other Graeco-Roman champions were Finnish Vaino Kokkinen, who defended his 1928 middle-weight championship; Carl Westergren, Swedish bus-driver, who won the middleweight championship in 1920, the lightweight championship in 1924, the heavyweight championship last week. ¶ Gymnasts competed in the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. auditorium. Scores after five days' competition: Italy, 541.85; U. S., 522.275; Finland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Xth Olympiad | 8/22/1932 | See Source »

...makes no difference to him what his wife is up to; he has a variety of lady friends and lies to them all. He borrows $30,000,000 from his own bank to build a 102-story skyscraper. When threatened with bankruptcy he goes to take a Turkish bath where he persuades a goodnatured plutocrat (George Barbier) to save his venture. Another associate is soon a suicide, ruined by a stock deal in which Banker Dwight runs Manhattan-Seacoast up to 350 and then causes it to go rapidly down. Banker Dickson suffers from his wife's readiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 15, 1932 | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

Millions and millions of loudspeakers flood the U. S. with a mighty, surging bath of warm, sweet music. At the pump is Radio; the wellspring is Tin Pan Alley. Without the well, the pump is not much good. Both realize it but they do not love each other. Last week pump and well- the National Association of Broadcasters and the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-came to grips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Pump v. Well | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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