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...brother-in-law. "Every other night, when his wife was asleep, he would come to my bed and try to get in beside me. . . . When he got in one side of the bed, I jumped out the other. He would run after me, trying to rape me." Attorney Norman Becker asked why she did not scream. "I didn't want to wake my sister." Attorney Robert Cantwell Jr. asked why she did not leave the Feiler household. "They needed somebody to take care of their daughter." Attorney Becker asked if her sister ever found out about these nocturnal chases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Frustratress | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

...Telescoped into the tender was the Limited's baggage car. Six sleepers, the diner and a day coach of the 15-car train were jerked off the track, rolled helter-skelter in grinding wreckage. Of 208 passengers, few escaped some injury. Thirty died, one of them P. O. Becker, toy train maker of Moline, Ill. Among the uninjured: Sports Broadcaster Bill Stern; a score or more Chinese in the custody of a U. S. marshal. Dead was veteran Engineer Earl, after 41 years' service. On him the New York Central line placed the blame, said the speed tape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Wreck of the Lake Shore | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...University of Chicago he is remembered as one of the two brightest students of pre-war generations. (The other: Benjamin Cohen.) Son of law-loving Chicago Lawyer Herman Frank, Jerome had a reputation for legal brilliance almost before he started practice. This he increased with the firm of Levinson, Becker, Schwartz & Frank, corporate specialists. Jerome also developed a reputation for hard work and absentmindedness. Asking his secretary to come to the office Sunday, he would fail to show up himself. On the North Western to and from his North Shore home he wrote novels, never published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Intellectual on the Spot | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

...JACOB S. BECKER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 16, 1939 | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...Gold Coasters took the lead in the second quarter after a sustained drive down the field, most of which was composed of power plays. Wally Chessman carried the ball over from the six yard line and Bill Becker dropkicked the point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams Triumphs Over Eliot As Dudley Noses Out Dunster | 10/6/1939 | See Source »

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