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...lonely, tipsy man was stabbed and critically wounded on a deserted street for no reason that police could find. Several days later the stabbed body of a mechanic was found in a weed-grown field. Then, within 150 yards of the same spot, the body of Canadian Sergeant Hugh Blackwood Price was found; he, too, had been knifed. Next, a night watchman at a Windsor garage was brutally clubbed to death with a hammer, apparently by would-be robbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ONTARIO: Crime Wave | 9/3/1945 | See Source »

...They Like It. In Harrisburg, Pa., Corporal Martin Blackwood and Edna May Weaver, who met on roller skates, were married that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 10, 1944 | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...Author. Uncle of chubby, cherubic-looking Harold Nicolson's was Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Viscount Clandeboye and Earl of Dufferin and Earl of Ava, P.C., K.P., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., G.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. He added Egypt and Burma to the British Empire. Harold Nicolson's father was Sir Arthur Nicolson, Baron Carnock, of Carnock, British diplomat in such outposts as Teheran (where Child Harold was born), Constantinople and Vienna. When, after 20 years of foreign service, Harold Nicolson renounced diplomacy for authoring, he wrote overtly laudatory, covertly ironical lives of his uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to be Perfidious | 8/28/1939 | See Source »

Leonard Gribble told an unbelievable story of the murder of a self-made Englishman at a fancy-dress ball. In Midnight and Percy Jones Vincent Starrett told the story of the shooting of a Chicago concert singer and the solution of the crime by Riley Blackwood, a drama critic and annoying amateur detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder Market | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...first and two in the fourth sewed up the game. The lineups: WINTHROP (11): Gilliland, cf; Burbank, 3b, ss; Moore, ss, lf; Gray, c; Kelley, 2b; Turner, lf, rf; Benedict, Ib; Ellis, p; Blumberg, rf. Subs: Downs, 3b. DUNSTER (6): Pamp, cf; Jones, 3b; Hunter, 1b; Caldwell, c; Blackwood, P; Brooks, 2b; George, lf; Hampson, ss; Nuabaum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland Shuts Out Dudley As Winthrop Outhits Dunster | 5/20/1937 | See Source »

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