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Adultery? Blackmail? Clinically, such inseminations have been notably successful. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Alan Guttmacher has reported success in no less than 20 out of 36 attempts. But the problem of possible charges of adultery against the mother, illegitimacy against the child, blackmail by donors of semen remains unsolved. For their own as well as their patients' protection, U.S. doctors usually seek refuge in a rigmarole of anonymity and secrecy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Artificial Bastards? | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...murder as by Guilford's and Liggett's, still officially listed as unsolved. Minneapolis' legitimate newspapers cluck-clucked properly over Kasherman's death, hoped that the latest killing would do what police and city officials had failed to do: put a stop to blackmail parading as journalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Victim No. 3 | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Moscow-manufactured Polish Committee as the Provisional Government of Poland is a challenge flung not so much at the London Poles as in the teeth of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. It is the latest move in what is coming to look like a genial form of Soviet blackmail of its western allies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Genial Blackmail | 1/22/1945 | See Source »

...toward a woman. Later, another businessman threatened to cancel his advertising unless the Free Press let up on Talmadge. "All right," said Miss Edna, "you can cancel, but I'll give you one free ad. I'll write it and tell why you canceled. That's blackmail, I suppose, but I learned about it from you." The advertising stayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miss Edna | 7/31/1944 | See Source »

...labor." He was writing a biography of St. Francis. In Athens there was bulbous, unctuous Mr. Peters (Sydney Greenstreet). Mr. Peters was also in Belgrade and Paris. And everywhere there were whispers of a cryptic organization called the Eurasian Credit Trust, whose headman turned up for a climax of blackmail and gunfire, with Mr. Peters gasping his life out on a mess of thousand-franc notes. By then Author Leyden had gathered more "material" than he bargained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

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