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Father's Day. In Dudley, Worcesteshire, when the minister intoned "speak, or else hereafter for ever hold his peace," George Thomas' son spoke. He didn't want his father to become a bigamist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 21, 1948 | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

...kindly to the ghosts. Accusations and name-calling turned the hearing into bedlam. Under the bullfrog blustering of Santo's lawyer, swart, strutting, pint-sized Harry Sacher, some witnesses wilted. Others roared back. Into the record went such words as "bum," "parasite," "derelict," "stool pigeon," "police spy," "informer," "bigamist," "white slaver," "Muttel the Goniff" (Yiddish for Max the Thief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Ghost Story | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

...seemed doubtful that there would be any clear-cut legal decision for months, but at week's end an Atlanta judge named Virlyn B. Moore expressed positive if indirect disapproval of the present state of affairs. A Negro bigamist arraigned in his court cried: "I caint see where it's wrong for a man to have two wives when it's all right for a state to have two governors." Judge Moore just gave him twelve months in the cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GEORGIA: Double Trouble | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...store. There, after a week of whirlwind courtship, an itinerant spaghetti salesman named Rechetti marries the widow and whisks her and her daughter, Tilli, off to Italy. He has neglected to tell his U.S. wife that he has an Italian wife still living. But the singular Quakeress and the bigamist decide that this really does not matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Bed We Snore | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

Honeymoon. In Sacramento, Calif., Private Carl LeRoy John started on his honeymoon. He wrecked his car, was arrested for auto theft, discovered his bride was a bigamist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 17, 1942 | 8/17/1942 | See Source »

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