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Double-Trouble. In Chicago, Bigamist Robert Pruitt's two wives went to the same hospital, presented him with children the same day, found out about each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 10, 1942 | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...Harvard College acquired its first chief executive. Smooth-spoken, well-dressed Nathaniel Eaton, at the age of 27, served for a brief term as Harvard's first President, treasurer, secretary, dean, bursar, professor, tutor, and steward. This amazing yersatility, however, extended even beyond the scholastic realin: thief, bigamist, forger, and con-man, Eaton was not only a scholar of note but a knave of high distinction...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SILHOUETTES | 11/5/1940 | See Source »

...worthy's ponderous gibes at justice. The Lord Chief Justice of England and associate bigwigs are made to appear as a clique of underbrained, overfed dodos. The antics of a desperate adolescent (Laurence Olivier) who gets mixed up with a White Russian girl (Vivien Leigh), inadvertently kills her bigamist husband, appear some how noble. The lifelong efforts of his elder brother (Leslie Banks) to make a career on the British bench appear some how ignoble. Occasionally tense, usually laggard, 21 Days Together will chiefly thrill devotees of the Leigh-Olivier Liebestraum. It is reported to be the picture which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...matters hotter, the jungle (which covered 45,000 square feet of a Universal lot) teems with hostile Indians. To make doubly sure that it is all right for Douglas Fairbanks to go off with Joan Bennett, the Indians kill her husband and it turns out that he was a bigamist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...long been supposed that sailors have a wife in every port, but I am sorry to see TIME support this fiction by placing my salty uncle, Paul Hammond, in the difficult position of a bigamist (TIME, Aug. 28, photo "Professor and Mrs. Morison," accompanying article "After Columbus"). Actually, the photograph is of Skipper Hammond and Mrs. Morison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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